The Wyndham Case

Imogen Quy, Book 1

By: Jill Paton Walsh

Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton

Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's Summary

Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to popular detective Imogen Quy.  

The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge, houses an unrivalled and, according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of 17th-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....

©2019 Jill Paton Walsh (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

long awaited

I was delighted to see this much loved series on Audible. My only concern was that the reader wouldn't do the books justice - I needn't have worried, she was excellent.

Excellent

Really enjoyed this book from beginning to end. I have read this book and enjoyed it
& The audio version is also excellent and very well narrated.

New discovery

Having read and listened to Jill Paton Walsh’s collaborations with Dorothy L Sayers on the Whimsy books, I felt emboldened to try one of her own works. I am so glad I did! She did not disappoint and I now have the Isobel Quy books to savour. Looking forward to a good rich series.

spoiled by narrator

the story was narrated with all the earnestness of a head girl. The narrator embued every male voice with a speech impediment , high-pitched querulousness, or an unconvincing regional accent. it was irritating and distracting

A bit too cosy

All rather gentle, with not a great deal going on. Not for me. The reader did fine, only a few mispronunciations, but was not particularly inspiring.

Excellent

Excellent story as always from a Jill Paton Walsh. The reader did it full justice