Death on the Cherwell

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"Hay, who also wrote Murder Underground, crafted a witty and sometimes scathing account of women at Oxford at a time when they were only grudgingly accepted." --Booklist

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behavior among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cozy 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 10/04/2016
ISBN: 9781464206597
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016
Booklist 09/15/2016 pg. 25