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Set in the fictional landscape of an English university, the story begins with the sudden disappearance of an enigmatic campus cat. This feline character has become an essential, if unofficial, part of the academic community, weaving its way into the routines and lives of staff and students alike. When the cat vanishes, it throws the campus into an amusing frenzy, prompting an investigation that unravels more than just the mystery of its whereabouts.
Woolf’s writing sparkles with humour, and you are swept along with her affectionate and authentic critique of academia. The vividly drawn characters each play their part in the comedic unravelling of the mystery. Delightful.
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The Case of the Campus Cat Synopsis
A breakthrough in paediatric medicine. A battle-scarred tomcat. A tribe in the South American rainforest.
How could they possibly be connected?
Lesbian literary scholar Morgan Byrd has no time for babies, or cats. But when the disappearance of her university's resident tomcat is rapidly followed by baby snatching and murder, Morgan is drawn into the police inquiry, alongside ten-year-old Oliver Cresswell, a maths prodigy turned boy detective with a man-sized secret to hide.
While their input is not always welcome, Detective Inspector Burdock soon finds that he needs their unorthodox assistance to unravel his investigation, filled as it is with red herrings, tumultuous twists and eccentric characters, from academics to members of a closed religious sect.
As for Alka-Seltzer, the disreputable campus cat, the circumstances behind his grisly end will offer an unexpected glimpse into a political heart of darkness...
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781803782218 |
| Publication date: |
30th July 2024 |
| Author: |
Judith Woolf |
| Publisher: |
Cranthorpe Millner Publishers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
270 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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About Judith Woolf
Judith Woolf is a novelist, literary critic, translator, poet and librettist. Her second novel, A Chalked Heart, was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and earned her a Writer’s Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, and she was Writer in Residence at the first Ilkley Literature Festival. Her translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s autobiographical novel, The Things We Used to Say, was highly commended by the judges for the John Florio Prize, and her singing version of the opening scene of The Magic Flute was a prize winner in the John Dryden Translation Competition. Her academic teaching and research has centred on narrative in many of its forms, from life writing, especially in connection with the Holocaust, to story patterns in European literature and folklore. The Case of the Campus Cat is her thirteenth book and her third novel.
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