The Bad Quarto
A Gripping Cambridge Murder Mystery
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Narrated by:
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Suzannah Hampton
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Jill Paton Walsh
About this listen
Imogen Quy returns to solve another intriguing Cambridge mystery in the latest in an exciting series to rival Inspector Morse.
Another foolhardy Cambridge college-climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's John Talentire, one of the brightest young dons at St Agatha's, and the verdict is accident, compounded by idiocy.
But Imogen Quy - her name rhymes with 'why' - can't help wondering how such a clever young man died so stupidly. And when a wildly eccentric production of Hamlet is interrupted by a murder accusation, Imogen has to look into it, uncovering more crime than she expected.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-02-23
Good ending to this series
I enjoyed this novel much more than I had expected . The reviews were very mixed.
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- Melanie Bennett
- 17-05-20
A gem
Lovely evocation of Cambridge life with a clever and capable lead character in Imogen . Listen to JPW’s Lord Peter Wimsey novels when you’ve finished this series .
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- keefy
- 21-05-24
Rather dull
This was really not up to the standards of the previous Quy books. Pedestrian story.
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- angelene parr
- 24-10-19
Dreadful
I have loved all Jill Paton Walsh books including her Peter Whimsys. But this one!
The story line was weak and there were parts especially discussing cot deaths/baby shaking syndrome that went on far too long and you lost the will to listen. It was disjointed and lacked a clear conclusion. It was poor and at times boreing
I was very disappointed
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- L. Calder
- 26-05-24
Decent story but poor scene setting
I quite like these stories but the author is all over the place in her period detail. In this story which at most can only be set mid 90’s a don regularly gets books from Amazon and a poor working class student has an iPod, in the last volume set even earlier mobile phones and texting were mentioned. It just throws me off because I lived through this period (and indeed was a student at the other place) and I find it irritating
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- Celia 22
- 06-08-22
Bit of let down
Was way ahead of her on this one on at least three threads of the story.
Predictable - not quite sure what the character of the old guy friend was for he wasn’t really needed in the story.
What are the chances of a 35 year old nurse running into people she trained with and being used as an unpaid - unaffiliated - member of a busy A&E unit?
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