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Imogen Quy Detective Mysteries

By: Jill Paton Walsh
Narrated by: Carolyn Pickles, Barbara Flynn, Tracy Wiles, Richard Derrington, Geoffrey Whitehead, Clare Corbett, Jasmine Hyde, Rosemary Leach, Peter Howell, Colin Starkey, full cast
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Summary

Two delightful detective dramas adapted from Jill Paton Walsh's bestselling books

Award-winning author Jill Paton Walsh was well known for her four Lord Peter Wimsey novels that continued and completed Dorothy L. Sayers's much-loved series. These two cosy crime dramas introduce her own sparkling creation, Imogen Quy, a college nurse and amateur sleuth who investigates foul play in academia.

The Wyndham Case - The tranquil atmosphere of St Agatha's College, Cambridge is shattered when a young undergraduate is found dead on the floor of a specialist library. The repository of a rare collection of 17th-century scientific volumes, the 'Wyndham Case' is always kept locked: so how did Philip Skellow get in? And was his death accidental - or murder? Imogen is determined to find out... Starring Carolyn Pickles as Imogen Quy.

A Piece of Justice - When Imogen's lodger Fran Bullion is asked to write the biography of eminent mathematician Gideon Summerfield, she is delighted - but Imogen fears she may be in danger. Three previous would-be biographers have either died or disappeared, and their research stopped at the same point in their subject's life: August 1978. What secret surrounds that fateful summer, and who is willing to kill to protect it? Barbara Flynn stars as Imogen, with Tracy Wiles as Fran.

Text copyright © Jill Paton Walsh 1993 (The Wyndham Case), 1995 (A Piece of Justice)

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Production credits

Written by Jill Paton Walsh

The Wyndham Case

Imogen Quy - Carolyn Pickles

Mike Parsons - Richard Derrington

Sir William Buckmote - Jeffery Dench

Lady Buckmote - Marlene Sidaway

Fran Bullion - Tracy Wiles

Mountnessing - Charles Collingwood

Mrs Skellow - Gillian Goodman

Lord Goldhooper - Ian Brooker

Nick - Tom George

Emily/Tracy - Claire Corbett

Catherine/Felicity - Jasmine Hyde

Jack - Thomas Arnold

Phillip Skellow - Alex Trinder

Roger - Martyn Read

Dramatised by Neville Teller

Directed by Peter Lesley Wild

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 3 February 2001

A Piece of Justice

Imogen Quy - Barbara Flynn

Janet Somerfield - Rosemary Leach

Fran Bullion - Tracy Wiles

Josh - Robert Harper

Dr Mistral - James Greene

Lady Buckmote - Marlene Sidaway

Sir William Buckmote - Geoffrey Whitehead

Professor Maverack - Colin Starkey

Meredith Bagadeuce - Peter Howell

Pamela Zephyr - Di Botcher

David Swann - Iwan Thomas

Dramatised by Neville Teller

Directed by Janet Whitaker

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 7 November 1998

©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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I really enjoyed this radio drama adaption. I will be looking for more stories from the author.

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Not in-depth but

These are enjoyably dramatised. Some more background on the characters would be really helpful. Otherwise these are enjoyable

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Caroline Pickles in the first episode is awful

two stories on here, the second one is better. Pickles portrayal of Imogen in the first story is smug and patronising to say the least. I'd lost interest by the denouement. The second story is much better and has a much better plot and the actress playing Imogen is alot easier on the ear!

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Ok

Have read the books in the past and enjoyed them. These were much abridged, so not as good. I enjoyed the first story the wyndham bequest, which had different readers, but the second was not as good. To me there seemed to be some, rather noisy overacting. I may listen to the first story again, but not the second. Or I may just return it.

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