Book description
1786, Jerusalem College Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is
rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank
Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds.
Desperate to salvage her son?s reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs
John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts ? a stinging account of
why ghosts are mere delusion ? to investigate. But his arrival in
Cambridge disrupts an uneasy status quo as he glimpses a world of
privilege and abuse, where the sinister Holy Ghost Club governs life at
Jerusalem more effectively than the Master, Dr Carbury, ever could. And
when Holdsworth finds himself haunted ? not only by the ghost of his
dead wife, Maria, but also Elinor, the very-much-alive Master?s wife ?
his fate is sealed. He must find Sylvia?s murderer or the hauntings will
continue. And not one of them will leave the claustrophobic confines of
Jerusalem unchanged. Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of
critically acclaimed crime novels, including the Roth Trilogy (ITV's
Fallen Angel
) and The American Boy
, his bestselling historical novel which was a Richard and Judy Book
Club selection. He has won many awards, including two CWA Ellis Peters
Historical Daggers and most recently the CWA Diamond Dagger. He lives in
the Forest of Dean.
