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Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John's and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bedmakers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term were admitted to find, lying across the path, the body of one of the College porters. The murder of the porter begins a mystery which deepens when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing. The search for the murderer is conducted in part by the police and partly by the Vice-President of Fisher College Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection.… (mehr)
The settings are a lot of fun, and seeing Scotland Yard taken for a bit is a novelty, but the plethora of “I lied” plot twists does get a bit annoying, and you do wonder if Cherrington isn’t a bit of a “Mary Sue.” ( )
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To those who were educated in the older and more beautiful of the two ancient Universities there is no need to explain that Fisher College lies between Trinity and St. John's, and stretches from Trinity Street down to the Cam, but to those who were not so fortunate we should explain that Fisher College - the abbreviation 'Fisher' is never used - comprises two excellent sixteenth-century brick courts, both tremendously praised by Ruskin.
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Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John's and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bedmakers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term were admitted to find, lying across the path, the body of one of the College porters. The murder of the porter begins a mystery which deepens when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing. The search for the murderer is conducted in part by the police and partly by the Vice-President of Fisher College Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection.
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