Imogen Quy is a part-time nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University, in the series by Jill Paton Walsh.

In her mid-thirties, Imogen had once hoped to be a doctor, but gave up her studies for a man. When the romance failed, she decided to study nursing, returning to her hometown of Cambridge.

Jill Paton Walsh is most known for her young adult books. She also completed an unfinished Dorothy L. Sayers novel.

Imogen finds herself investigating murder purely by accident, but her medical background is quite useful: "Imogen had learned long ago how to take patient histories, sitting at hospital bedsides asking questions, ordering the answers carefully, and never, never (her professor was very insistent) failing to explore and eliminate the significance of anything that looked merely coincidental" (The Wyndham Case); "A crime, like a disease, throws up symptoms all over the place, and the needful art is to see the pattern" (A Piece of Justice).

The Wyndham Case, 1993
An unpopular student is found dead in an odd college library, and his roommate has disappeared. Classmates are being evasive with the police, so school nurse Imogen Quy begins asking questions. [Available at Amazon.com]

A Piece of Justice, 1995
Several writers have tackled the compilation of a biography of a deceased mathematician, but they all disappeared under odd circumstances. When her lodger accepts the project, Imogen looks for a pattern in the fates of the previous authors. [Available at Amazon.com]

Send email.