Name: Death on the Cherwell

Author: Mavis Doriel Hay
Year: 1935
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Classic

Purchase/reserch links:

ISBNs:
9781464206597
1464206597
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils in the world: unladylike behavior among her students and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy 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.
Similar books:


Categories:
Science fiction
Fantasy
Mystery
Romance
Business
Classic
Sports
Young adult
Humor
Memoirs
See all categories...