Revue de presse 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) Présentation de l'éditeur The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of seventeenth century volumes.It also contains one dead student.Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in stealing books rather than acquiring knowledge when he'd slipped, banged his head, and bled to death overnight.Only Imogen Quy, the college nurse, has her doubts - until another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain... Quatrième de couverture The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled collection of seventeenth-century volumes. And one dead student . . .Tragic and accidental of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skelly was stealing books rather than reading them when he slipped, banged his head and bled to death overnight.Only the college nurse, Imogen Quy, has her doubts: after all, her name rhymes with 'why'. And no one takes much notice until the second dead student appears in the college fountain.'In Imogen Quy the author has created an admirable detective heroine.' The Times Literary SupplementHave you read the other Imogen Quy novels? The Bad Quarto, Debts of Dishonour and A Piece of Justice are all Hodder paperbacks.Fiction: CrimeHodderISBN 978 0 340 83920 1 Biographie de l'auteur Jill Paton Walsh, born in 1937, is also the author of many non-crime novels for adults: the fourth of these, Knowledge of Angels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a career as a writer of children's books and has won many literary prizes.
