The Bad Quarto

Imogen Quycollege nurse at St. Agathas College, Cambridge Universityis inquisitive by nature. So her interest is piqued when a research fellow plummets to his death from a beautiful old tower in mysterious circumstances, especially when an undergraduate takes it upon himself to confront the suspected murderer through an unorthodox production of the bad quartoa shortened, pirated scriptof Shakespeares Hamlet. Leave it to Imogen, an exemplary amateur sleuth (Publishers Weekly), to find out what really happened, in the most literate and compelling academic mystery since Dorothy L. Sayerss Gaudy Night.