The Wyndham Case By Jill Paton Walsh

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Dramatised by Neville Teller. 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... CAST: Imogen Quy:   Carolyn Pickles Mike Parsons:    Richard Derrington Fran:    Tracey Wiles Sir William:    Jeffery Dench Mountnessing:    Charles Collingwood Lady Buckmote:    Tom George Mrs Skellow:   Gillian Goodman Lord Goldhooper:   Ian Brooker Roger:     Martyn Read Emily/Tracy:    Clare Corbett Catherine/Felicity:   Jasmine Hyde Philip Skellow:   Alex Trinder Jack:  Thomas Arnold Directed by Peter Leslie Wild The Saturday Play: The Wyndham Case Sat 3rd Feb 2001, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM 
Amateur sleuth Imogen Quy solves another mystery in the academic surroundings of Cambridge University. The locked library of St Agatha's College houses an invaluable collection of 17th-century volumes. It also contains one dead student. Was it a tragic accident, or is there some more mysterious and deadly circumstance surrounding the death of model student Philip Skellow? If anyone can find out it is college nurse Imogen Quy, and her policeman friend Mike. "A jewel in the traditional English detective mode... Ms Morse has arrived" (Observer) A first appearance for Imogen Quy (rhymes with ``why''), an English school nurse with a flair for detection. She lives and works in Cambridge, at St. Agatha's College, where routine academic life is roiled by the death of student Philip Skellow—found dead on the floor of the locked Wyndham Case—a highly specialized library overseen by foppish Crispin Mountressing, who's an overpaid object of envy and contempt to Imogen's friend Roger Rumbold, director of the college's ``real'' library. Philip shared living quarters with campus hotshot Jack Taverham, now suddenly vanished, whose upper-class background and adoring friends contrasted sharply with Philip's bumpkin ways, making him the butt of cruel jokes—one of which may have led to his death. No joke was involved in the murder of third-year med student Felicity Marshall, but the message she left before she died helps lead Imogen and her policeman friend Mike Parsons to an obsessed killer and to the happy resolution of some troubling lesser problems on campus. A leisurely, literate style, an intriguing clutch of academic eccentrics, a clever puzzle, and a sharply intelligent sleuth whose gentleness sets her apart from the hard-edged aggressions of her fictional contemporaries—all in a refreshing debut in the Sayers tradition. [Kirkus Review 1993]

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Bornfree

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Voice actors were good, thoroughly enjoyed it