- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books (Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312094205
- ISBN-13: 978-0312094201
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
The Wyndham Case (Imogen Quy Mystery 1)
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'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode... Ms. Morse has arrived' -- Observer 'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth.' -- Sunday Express 19920101 'In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected.' -- Times Literary Supplement 19920101 'Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently ... Sayers' many fans will be delighted.' -- Andrew Taylor, Independent 19980101 '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 an entertaining and stimulating crime novel.' -- Manchester Evening News 19980101
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'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode... Ms. Morse has arrived' (Observer )
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth.' (Sunday Express )
'In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected.' (Times Literary Supplement )
'Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently . . . Sayers' many fans will be delighted.' (Andrew Taylor, Independent )
'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 an entertaining and stimulating crime novel.' (Manchester Evening News ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth.' (Sunday Express )
'In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, as unabashed as she is unaffected.' (Times Literary Supplement )
'Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently . . . Sayers' many fans will be delighted.' (Andrew Taylor, Independent )
'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 an entertaining and stimulating crime novel.' (Manchester Evening News ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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A traditional Cambridge college, the usual mix of class-conscious-rich and humble-working-class students, a college nurse. And an old and very outdated library of "scientific" books. Why shouldn't the body be found in the (locked) library? Well, thereby hangs a tale and a half, requiring sympathy and study to unravel. Historical detail is combined with a lively (and not always sympathetic!) description of gilded student youth, until Imogen Quy realises the story within a story and confronts killer and conspirators.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Meet Imogen Quy, College Nurse at St. Agatha's, who finds herself drawn into investigations into the strange death of a student in a locked library. Classic Agatha Christie you might think, although there's more of a nod here to Dorothy Sayers and - with its university background - just a touch of Morse,(a Cambridge backdrop substituting for Oxford's dreaming spires). This is a reasonably diverting mystery, with neatly drawn though not particularly memorable characters and - of course - a picturesque setting. I'm not sure that the ending will take readers totally by surprise; without giving anything away, it is in part quite well signalled early in the book, although I won't pretend I'd worked out all the angles. There is the occasional jarring moment; for example Ms. Quy pays an impulse visit to a completely strange hairdressing salon and just happens to be dealt with by a stylist who is the victim's girlfriend. Mr Dickens might get away with far-fetched co-incidence, lesser writers do not! And being really picky, I would have thought a qualified nurse would not refer to the "St. John's Ambulance Brigade" but would use the correct title "St.John Ambulance Brigade". However, these are minor carps, and if you are looking for a reasonably literate but not over-demanding entertainment to wile away a winter's evening this may well fit the bill.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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a jolly good story, well written which does not patronise its reader - unlike a book I recently read where a character explains the meaning of the word esoteric, clearly the author thought her readership too dim to either know what it meant or too dumb to look it up! Not sure when it is supposed to be set as a student borrows her typewriter- most students wouldn't know what one looked like- but they have computers (?) that aside the story is good with nicely thrown red herrings. OK one or two wild coincidences but it is fiction! Enjoyable, readable will buy the next in series as soon as I finished writing this! -- kindle edition, no problems with Kindle layout.
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