Death on the Cherwell
(2014, original release: 1935)
Fiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/HAY,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
London : The British Library, 2014
DESCRIPTION
286 pages : map ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780712357265 (pbk.), 0712357262 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: London: Skeffington & Son, 1935
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. This means it's a very, very bad day when a secret society of her students meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon--and finds the drowned body of the college bursar. Death on the Cherwell follows the investigation, which initially focuses on the girls themselves and ultimately leads them to do some detecting of their own. Soon they uncover a tangle of secrets--and clues that point to a fellow student