{"product_id":"the-case-of-the-wandering-scholar-9781632868398","title":"The Case of the Wandering Scholar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders's Victorian detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford academic. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services. Mrs. Rodd's neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive, rich gentleman dying of consumption, and he wants Mrs. Rodd to find his brother, who has been missing for fifteen years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Joshua Welland was a scholar at Oxford, brilliant, eccentric, and desperately poor when he disappeared from the university. Friends claim to have seen him since, in gypsy camps and wandering around the countryside. But the last sighting was ten years before-when Joshua claimed to be learning great secrets from the gypsies that would one day astound the whole world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford and begins to search for the wandering scholar. But as she investigates, Mrs. Rodd discovers something dark-and extremely dangerous-lurking in the beautiful English countryside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For readers of James Runcie, Alexander McCall Smith, and M. C. Beaton, \u003ci\u003eLaetitia Rodd and the Mystery of the Wandering Scholar \u003c\/i\u003eis a delightful new mystery about Victorian England and an indomitable female detective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632868398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kate Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43361512489141,"sku":"9781632868398","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dec113bc-464e-41b4-9c42-ce814a399f17.jpg?v=1701191278","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-case-of-the-wandering-scholar-9781632868398","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}