Book description
The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an
unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting
collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one dead
student. Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip
hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in stealing books rather than
acquiring knowledge when he'd slipped, banged his head, and bled to
death overnight. Only Imogen Quy, the college nurse, has her doubts -
until another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain...
Jill Paton Walsh, born in 1937, is also the author of many non-crime
novels for adults: the fourth of these, Knowledge of Angels, was
shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a
career as a writer of children's books and has won many literary prizes.
