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Author: Catherine Shaw

Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749083472
Pages: 288
Rights: World, English
Pub. Date: 30th August 2012

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Price: £6.99

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Cambridge, 1888. Miss Vanessa Duncan, a young schoolmistress recently arrived from the countryside, writes of her feelings and experiences to her twin sister, Dora. She loves teaching and finds the world of academia fascinating; things seem to be going so well. But everything changes when a Fellow of Mathematics, Mr Akers, is found dead in his room from a violent blow to the head. Invited to dinner by the family of one of her charges, Vanessa meets many of the victim’s colleagues, including Mr Arthur Weatherburn, who had dined with Akers the evening of his death and happens to be Vanessa’s upstairs neighbour. Discussing the murder, she learns of Sir Isaac Newton’s yet unsolved ‘n-body problem’, which Akers might have been trying to solve to win a prestigious prize. As the murder remains unsolved, Vanessa’s relationship with Arthur Weatherburn blossoms. Then another mathematician, Mr Beddoes is murdered and Arthur is jailed. Convinced of his innocence and with a theory of her own, Vanessa decides to prove her case. But when a third mathematician dies, it becomes a race against time to solve the puzzle…

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