Death on the Cherwell: A British Library Crime Classic | 
pickThis was a charming mystery which took several unexpected turns (unexpected by me anyway). The college students who do some of the investigating were lots of fun although the police solve the crime, really.
pickThis was a charming mystery which took several unexpected turns (unexpected by me anyway). The college students who do some of the investigating were lots of fun although the police solve the crime, really.
“Respectable publicity was bad enough because newspaper reporters, however carefully instructed, were liable to break out into some idiocy about ‘undergraduettes‘ or ‘academic caps coquettishly set on golden curls.‘ But shameful publicity!”
“Conscious of the brevity of their college life, [undergraduates] are ready to seize every opportunity to assert their individuality. The easily acquired label of ‘originality‘ is so much more distinguished than the ‘naughtiness‘ of their out-passed school days, and quite a lot of wildness may be mixed with a modicum of work and form a sound basis for a highly respectable later life.”
Here‘s my haul from my very first visit to Powell‘s Books.
Why, oh why, is there a weight restriction on luggage for flights? 😉
pickThis was a really interesting golden age mystery that centers on the death of a bursar at a women's college at Oxford University in the 1930's. Unlike Gaudy Night, another mystery that takes place at a women's college in Oxford in the 1930's, Death on the Cherwell focuses on undergraduates. It was a fun read. Sadly, Mavis Doriel Hay wrote only 3 mysteries, but all are worth reading!
I wonder if there are other mysteries set in women's colleges?
Undergraduates, especially those in their first year, are not, of course, quite sane or quite adult. 😂
