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1408866900

The case of the wandering scholar.

Author: Saunders, Kate.

Publication year: 2020

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2020.

ISBN: 9781408866900 (pbk.) : 7.99

Notes:

Originally published: 2019.

It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric, and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he took to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return. Since then, there have been several sightings of his lonely, ragged figure. Ten years ago a friend spotted him in a gypsy camp, where he was rumoured to be learning great secrets that would one day astound the world. Mrs Rodd uses her search as an opportunity to reconnect with a couple from her past, but then a violent murder is committed and Scotland Yard are called to investigate.

Series title: Laetitia Rodd ; 2