Death on the Cherwell (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Hay, Mavis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464206597 ISBN 13: 9781464206597

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2016

Synopsis

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"Hay, who also wrote Murder Underground, crafted a witty and sometimes scathing account of women at Oxford at a time when they were only grudgingly accepted." --Booklist

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behavior among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cozy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon, only to find the drowned body of the college bursar floating in her canoe.

The police assume that a student prank got out of hand, but the resourceful Persephone girls suspect foul play, and take the investigation into their own hands. Soon they uncover the tangled secrets that led to the bursar's death--and the clues that point to a fellow student.

This classic mystery novel, with its evocative setting in an Oxford women's college, is now republished for the first time since the 1930s, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Stephen Booth.

About this title

About the Author

MAVIS DORIEL HAY (1894-1979) was a novelist of the golden age of British crime fiction. Her three detective novels were published in the 1930s and have now been reintroduced to modern readers by the British Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1464206597
• ISBN 13: 9781464206597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272