Murder In College
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Minor chipping to spine, tanning and foxing to edges.
When a murder shatters the cloistered calm of Cardaff University, the crime proves far more tangled than the campus gossip suggests — for unlike other places of learning, this institution has harboured a startling collection of secrets alongside its scholars. Murder in College by J.Y. Dane Bell is a classic Golden Age crime novel that thrusts a likeable and tenacious police detective into the heart of an academic community where proximity, privilege, and academic rivalry make the pursuit of a killer both delicate and dangerous. The narrative moves at a brisk, confident pace, with sharp dialogue and a cast of suspects drawn from students, academics, and administrators alike, each harbouring their own reasons to keep the truth buried. Bell constructs a tightly plotted whodunit that captures the particular claustrophobia of a closed community under suspicion, where the murderer is as likely to be found at the lecture podium as in the college corridors. The prose is crisp and economical, reflecting the no-nonsense sensibility of mid-century British crime writing, while the detective himself emerges as a grounded, human figure — a refreshing contrast to the eccentric sleuths of the era. For readers who relish the intellectual chess match of classic detective fiction set against an atmospheric institutional backdrop, this novel presents a puzzle that lingers long after the final page is turned.
Author: J.Y. Dane Bell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1935, Bell
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Minor chipping to spine, tanning and foxing to edges.
When a murder shatters the cloistered calm of Cardaff University, the crime proves far more tangled than the campus gossip suggests — for unlike other places of learning, this institution has harboured a startling collection of secrets alongside its scholars. Murder in College by J.Y. Dane Bell is a classic Golden Age crime novel that thrusts a likeable and tenacious police detective into the heart of an academic community where proximity, privilege, and academic rivalry make the pursuit of a killer both delicate and dangerous. The narrative moves at a brisk, confident pace, with sharp dialogue and a cast of suspects drawn from students, academics, and administrators alike, each harbouring their own reasons to keep the truth buried. Bell constructs a tightly plotted whodunit that captures the particular claustrophobia of a closed community under suspicion, where the murderer is as likely to be found at the lecture podium as in the college corridors. The prose is crisp and economical, reflecting the no-nonsense sensibility of mid-century British crime writing, while the detective himself emerges as a grounded, human figure — a refreshing contrast to the eccentric sleuths of the era. For readers who relish the intellectual chess match of classic detective fiction set against an atmospheric institutional backdrop, this novel presents a puzzle that lingers long after the final page is turned.