Death on the Cherwell

Resumen del libro

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

Biografía del autor

Mavis Doriel Hay fue una novelista de la época dorada de la novela negra británica. Sus tres novelas de detectives son ahora libros únicos que se han convertido en objetos de colección. Experta en artesanía rural, acabó dedicando su obra y trayectoria profesional esta temática. Era conocida por sus conexiones con la alta aristocracia inglesa.