The incredible crime / Lois Austen-Leigh ; with an introduction by Kirsten T. Saxton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austen-Leigh, Lois, author.

Contributor:

Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- writer of introduction.

Series:

British Library crime classics

A Cambridge mystery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College stories.

Drug traffic--Fiction.

Drug traffic.

Cambridge (England)--Fiction.

Cambridge (England).

England--Cambridge.

Genre:

College stories.

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition, first U.S. trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2017.

Summary:

Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman.One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days' hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard - who is pursuing a quarry of his own.Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers - who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.This witty and entertaining crime novel has not been republished since the 1930s. This new edition includes an introduction by Kirsten T. Saxton, professor of English at Mills College, California.

Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman.One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days' hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard - who is pursuing a quarry of his own. Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers - who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.This witty and entertaining crime novel has not been republished since the 1930s. This new edition includes an introduction by Kirsten T. Saxton, professor of English at Mills College, California.

Notes:

Originally published in 1931 by Herbert Jenkins.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781464207464

1464207461

9780712356022

0712356029

OCLC:

961802592