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Imogen Quy Detective Mysteries

Imogen Quy Detective Mysteries

Two BBC Radio Crime Thrillers

Summary

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

© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

About the author

Jill Paton Walsh

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.
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