Vanessa Duncan's was a country girl fascinated with academia but unable to attend university, so when she moved to Cambridge, she became a schoolmistress. All appeared to be going well . . . until a man she had befriended, Arthur Weatherburn, was accused of being a serial killer. Using her powers...
Cambridge, 1888, Miss Vanessa Duncan is recently arrived from the countryside to teach. But everything changes when Mr Akers, a Fellow f Mathematics, is found dead. When a second and then third mathematician are murdered, it becomes a race against time to solve the case.
March, 1896. Motherhood and work as a private detective don???t easily go hand-in-hand, but Vanessa is determined to give it a try. Being a wife and mother has meant that she??'s had to give up her beloved teaching job, but Vanessa has been kept busy by a string of requests asking for her help in...
I sat near him in his study, my eyes heavy, but any idea of sleep was out of the question, for the doctor was buzzing about like a frantic bee. Shock, anger, joy, indignation, fury, and a feverish desire to understand crowded together to occupy all of his possibilities of expression, so that the ...
To be honest, I thought it most unlikely that I should obtain any useful information; in fact, I would almost have been content with arranging for an appointment at a later date. However, the lad at the front desk asked me not only my name and whom I wished to see, but also the purpose of my visi...
Faraday, I read, sitting on the garden bench, perusing the yellowed copy of The Athenaeum which Arthur had managed to locate and borrow for me. ‘He did this in 1853!’ I remarked. ‘And yet people still continue with spiritualism, so his reasoning doesn’t seem to have convin...