Death on the Cherwell
By: Mavis Doriel Hay ; with an introduction by Stephen Booth
Series: British Library crime classics
Publisher: British Library
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780712357265
Subjects: College students; Murder; Investigation; Fiction
Description: 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. Originally published in 1935.
Notes: Originally published: London: Skeffington & Son, 1935.