The Bad Quarto (Imogen Quy Mystery 4): A Gripping Cambridge Murder Mystery (Imogen Quy Mysteries) - Softcover

Jill Paton Walsh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340839228 ISBN 13: 9780340839225

Publisher: Hodder Paperback, 2007

Synopsis

Imogen Quy returns to solve another intriguing Cambridge mystery, in the latest in an exciting series to rival Inspector Morse.

About this title

Review:

'This is a satisfyingly convoluted tale, involving a family tragedy that took place many years before, as well as some ingenious sleuthing on the part of Imogen. In addition to this series, Paton Walsh has written two novels that continue Dorothy L. Sayer's Lord Peter Wimsey series and there is the same scholarly sensibility and elegant way with a plot twist to be found in the living author's work as there is in that of the doyenne of detective fiction.' --Christina Koning, The Times

'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode... Ms. Morse has arrived' --Observer

Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the twenty-first century. --Mirror

From the Back Cover:

The cleverest college nurse in Cambridge unpicks a tangled tale of long-forgotten tragedy with murderous consequences many years later.

Night-climbing is one of those picturesque Cambridge traditions - one which has killed far too many students over the centuries. And even some climbers who were old enough to know better like John Tallentire, whose promising career as a lecturer in English Literature was cut short on St Agatha's notorious leap, Harding's Folly.

How can this possibly be connected to a chaotic amateur production of an obscure version of Hamlet? Or to the disappearance of an unhappy young scholarship student?

Imogen Quy needs to find out: after all, her name rhymes with "why".

'An admirable detective heroine.' Times Literary Supplement.

'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth.' Sunday Express

Have you read all Jill Paton Walsh's detective stories? Imogen Quy has appeared in The Wyndham Case, A Piece of Justice,and Debts of Dishonour. They are all Hodder paperbacks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperback
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340839228
• ISBN 13: 9780340839225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288