The incredible crime
By: Lois Austen-Leigh ; with an introduction by Kirsten T. Saxton
Contributors: Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- writer of introduction
Edition: First edition, first U.S. trade paperback edition.
Series: British Library crime classics; A Cambridge mystery; British Library crime classics
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781464207464
Subjects: Drug traffic; College stories; Fiction
Description: Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman.One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days' hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard - who is pursuing a quarry of his own.Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers - who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.This witty and entertaining crime novel has not been republished since the 1930s. This new edition includes an introduction by Kirsten T. Saxton, professor of English at Mills College, California.
Notes: Originally published in 1931 by Herbert Jenkins.