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Born in 1937, Jill Paton Walsh was an award-winning British novelist and children's writer. Her adult novels include Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, and the Imogen Quy Mysteries. She also completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane series.
In 1996, she received the CBE for services to literature. She died in 2020.
A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . <b>Ms. Morse has arrived</b>
Observer
Imogen Quy <b>positively sparkles on the page</b> as an amateur sleuth
Sunday Express
Paton Walsh <b>plots deftly and writes intelligently</b>
Independent
In Imogen Quy, <b>the author has created an admirable detective heroine</b>, as unabashed as she is unaffected
Times Literary Supplement
Jill Paton Walsh demonstrates that the traditional ingredients of the woman sleuth, the academic background and a clever puzzle are still capable of being arranged into <b>an entertaining and stimulating crime novel</b>
Manchester Evening News
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth' - Sunday Express
What is the Summerfield secret?
Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late mathematician Gideon Summerfield has nasty consequences. Consequences that can sometimes be deadly.
Imogen Quy, the coolly competent nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, first notices the pattern when her enthusiastic lodger Fran becomes the latest Summerfield biographer. Before she realises how deadly the Summerfield secret is, Fran's life is in danger. And Imogen may be next . . .
Writing biographies is usually a harmless profession.
But when Imogen Quy's lodger Fran becomes the biographer of the late great mathematician Gideon Summerfield she turns out to have been hired to do the most dangerous job in Cambridge.
Imogen wants to know why - after all, her name rhymes with 'why'. But while she pieces together the mystery, Imogen's own harmless interest in quilting could make her the next victim.
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth. A Piece of Justice is one to be savoured and enjoyed.' Sunday Express
Have you read the other Imogen Quy novels? The Bad Quarto, Debts of Dishonour and The Wyndham Case are all Hodder paperbacks.
Fiction: Crime
Hodder
ISBN 978 0 0 340 83950 8
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Born in 1937, Jill Paton Walsh was an award-winning British novelist and children's writer. Her adult novels include Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, and the Imogen Quy Mysteries. She also completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane series.
In 1996, she received the CBE for services to literature. She died in 2020.