A Piece of Justice
A Cosy Cambridge Mystery
Published on 21. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-340-83950-8 (ISBN)
Description
'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 . . .
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 . . .
Reviews / Votes
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 * Paton Walsh plots deftly and writes intelligently * Independent * In Imogen Quy, the author has created an admirable detective heroine, 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 an entertaining and stimulating crime novel * Manchester Evening News *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
None
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
165 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-83950-8 (9780340839508)
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11/2011
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Person
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.
In 1996, she received the CBE for services to literature. She died in 2020.