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The Wyndham Case (Imogen Quy #1)
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This is the first in the series featuring Imogen Quy (rhymes with why) as an interested party in a detective novel. She's not the detective, she's the nurse at a fictional Cambridge college, but she gets involved in trying to get to the bottom of the murder, alongside the police. However, she's also interested in getting to the heart of the matter, not just finding who did it. So there's an element of conflict between her & the police, in the person of Mike Parsons, who she knows personally....more
Jill Paton Walsh writes follow up books to the Dorothy L Sayers Peter Wimsey books. They always sound quite interesting but the one time I tried Dorothy L Sayers I couldn't stand Wimsey, so I didn't really want to read a follow up. But this is a book featuring characters of her own so I thought I'd try it. I'm not sure if that makes any sense really, but that's how it was anyway!
This is a fairly old fashioned type of mystery even though it was written in the 1990s. Imogen Quy is the college nurs...more
This is a fairly old fashioned type of mystery even though it was written in the 1990s. Imogen Quy is the college nurs...more
Originally published on my blog here in February 1999.
The fictional St Agatha's College, Cambridge, has two libraries, a normal academic library and the Wyndham Library. This was endowed in the seventeenth century by an eccentric opponent of Newton's scientific ideas, and was stocked with books arguing against him. Not only that, but money was left to provide for the examination of the library stock once a century by someone unknown to the curator, to ensure that the contents would never change....more
The fictional St Agatha's College, Cambridge, has two libraries, a normal academic library and the Wyndham Library. This was endowed in the seventeenth century by an eccentric opponent of Newton's scientific ideas, and was stocked with books arguing against him. Not only that, but money was left to provide for the examination of the library stock once a century by someone unknown to the curator, to ensure that the contents would never change....more
Aug 10, 2011
Bev Hankins
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
academic-mystery,
mcpl-book
The Wyndham Case is Jill Paton Walsh's debut mystery novel. Starring Imogen Quy (rhymes with "why"), a part-time nurse who sees to the needs of the fellows and students of the imaginary Cambridge College of St. Agatha's, the mystery begins with the death of Philip Skellow, a scholarship student who was not much liked by his fellow students. Teased and scorned, he was often alone...and that is how he died--alone in the Wyndham Case, an eccentric library, and apparently in the act of robbing the l...more
Feb 02, 2011
Bettie
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
BBC listeners
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This was OK, really. Imogen Quy, Cambridge school nurse, is your standard sensible puzzle-solver --- part modern Maisie Dobbs (the intuitive, sensitive soul) and part younger Isabel Dalhousie (the comfortable, secure matron).
The mystery was of the body-in-the-library type, and good enough of its kind.
I may go for another Quy in future.
The mystery was of the body-in-the-library type, and good enough of its kind.
I may go for another Quy in future.
I liked her Sayers continuations well enough to read more of her work. This was a rather clever book. In the end, the worst damage was done by someone playing a prank and setting the wheels in motion.
From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
When a Cambridge student is found dead, is it just a tragic accident or is something sinister afoot? Stars Carolyn Pickles.
When a Cambridge student is found dead, is it just a tragic accident or is something sinister afoot? Stars Carolyn Pickles.
A far-fetched legacy to a school of a set of books treasured only by the deceased with a complicated set of conditions leading to murders.
Apr 29, 2011
Michele bookloverforever
rated it
1 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery
set in an English university. a body is found in the library. it appears to be suicide but isn't. I did not care about the characters or the plot.
A decent mystery -- the first of three by Jill Paton Walsh, who went on to write three Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane novels (& maybe more?).
A bit Morse-ish, murder mystery set in a Cambridge University College with the detective being the college nurse Imogen Quy.
Just OK. Cambridge University nurse helps solve the mystery of a murder in a closed library.
don't remember it but it was readable.
So so
This is an interesting introduction to Cambridge University nurse Imogene Quy who helps solve the case of the murder of an undergraduate found in a pool of blood in a special literary collection. The collection is special because it is so full of outdated information that it brings funds to the College in which it resides.
The characters are all very well drawn, even the minor ones and the story moves along to a good conclusion. I look forward to the nest in the series.
The characters are all very well drawn, even the minor ones and the story moves along to a good conclusion. I look forward to the nest in the series.
Favorite books of 1995...
Not one of Jill Paton Walsh's best books - it is fussy at places, wraps up too neatly at the end, and her main character seems to be a transplanted fifty something set in the body of a thirty something for development (and sequel?) purposes. In the book's defense, the plot is quite clever, and its allusions to Dorothy Sayers laudatory rather than redundant.
The first Imogen Quy mystery. And it's about a body in a library! No, not the famous Miss Marple story, but a story much better written and more intriguing, with nuanced characters and rich details about Cambridge University.
A really enjoyable mystery set in Cambridge. I might have missed some of the mystery parts, but I totally knew where to find the missing book as soon as it went missing.
Hardcover
Murder mystery set in St Agatha's College, Cambridge. Just another mystery to feed my habit.
Imogen Quy series (according to Wikipedia)
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Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St. Anne's College, Oxford. From 1959 to 1962 she taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School.
Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The...more
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Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The...more
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