Imogen Quy Detective Mysteries: Two BBC Radio Crime Thrillers
About this audiobook
Two delightful detective dramas adapted from Jill Paton Walsh's bestselling books
Award-winning author Jill Paton Walsh was well known for her four Lord Peter Wimsey novels that continued and completed Dorothy L. Sayers's much-loved series. These two cosy crime dramas introduce her own sparkling creation, Imogen Quy, a college nurse and amateur sleuth who investigates foul play in academia.
The Wyndham Case - The tranquil atmosphere of St Agatha's College, Cambridge is shattered when a young undergraduate is found dead on the floor of a specialist library. The repository of a rare collection of 17th-century scientific volumes, the 'Wyndham Case' is always kept locked: so how did Philip Skellow get in? And was his death accidental - or murder? Imogen is determined to find out... Starring Carolyn Pickles as Imogen Quy.
A Piece of Justice - When Imogen's lodger Fran Bullion is asked to write the biography of eminent mathematician Gideon Summerfield, she is delighted - but Imogen fears she may be in danger. Three previous would-be biographers have either died or disappeared, and their research stopped at the same point in their subject's life: August 1978. What secret surrounds that fateful summer, and who is willing to kill to protect it? Barbara Flynn stars as Imogen, with Tracy Wiles as Fran.
Text copyright © Jill Paton Walsh 1993 (The Wyndham Case), 1995 (A Piece of Justice)
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Production credits
Written by Jill Paton Walsh
The Wyndham Case
Imogen Quy - Carolyn Pickles
Mike Parsons - Richard Derrington
Sir William Buckmote - Jeffery Dench
Lady Buckmote - Marlene Sidaway
Fran Bullion - Tracy Wiles
Mountnessing - Charles Collingwood
Mrs Skellow - Gillian Goodman
Lord Goldhooper - Ian Brooker
Nick - Tom George
Emily/Tracy - Claire Corbett
Catherine/Felicity - Jasmine Hyde
Jack - Thomas Arnold
Phillip Skellow - Alex Trinder
Roger - Martyn Read
Dramatised by Neville Teller
Directed by Peter Lesley Wild
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 3 February 2001
A Piece of Justice
Imogen Quy - Barbara Flynn
Janet Somerfield - Rosemary Leach
Fran Bullion - Tracy Wiles
Josh - Robert Harper
Dr Mistral - James Greene
Lady Buckmote - Marlene Sidaway
Sir William Buckmote - Geoffrey Whitehead
Professor Maverack - Colin Starkey
Meredith Bagadeuce - Peter Howell
Pamela Zephyr - Di Botcher
David Swann - Iwan Thomas
Dramatised by Neville Teller
Directed by Janet Whitaker
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 7 November 1998
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About the author
Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book, A Parcel of Patterns, the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels, and the Whitbread Prize winner The Emperor's Winding Sheet. She completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mystery manuscript, the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations, and continued Sayers's series with A Presumption of Death, The Attenbury Emeralds, and The Late Scholar.
She held numerous posts connected to literature, including an Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship, acting as a Whitbread Prize judge, and serving on the committee of the Society of Authors. She contributed articles and reviews to many journals. In 1996 Walsh was awarded a CBE for services to literature and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
