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02344adm a2200373 i 4500 001 544C1702EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 191205t20202019meu d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1432877046 020 $a 9781432877040 040 $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Saunders, Kate, $d 1960- $e author. 245 14 $a The case of the wandering scholar $h [large type] / $c Kate Saunders. 246 3 $a Laetitia Rodd and the case of the wandering scholar 250 $a Large Print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2020. 300 $a 501 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 440 0 $a Laetitia Rodd mystery ; $v 02 520 $a It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he took to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return. Since then, there have been several sightings of his lonely, ragged figure. Ten years ago a friend spotted him in a gypsy camp, where he was rumoured to be learning great secrets that would one day astound the world. Mrs Rodd uses her search as an opportunity to reconnect with a couple from her past, but then a violent murder is committed and Scotland Yard are called to investigate. Mrs Rodd's old friend Inspector Blackbeard doesn't want to hear any nonsense about gypsies or secrets, but Mrs Rodd is convinced that something very sinister is lurking in this peaceful landscape. 610 20 $a University of Oxford $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women private investigators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Scholars $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Romanies $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 650 0 $a Missing persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widows $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Social life and customs $y 19th century $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722062830.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=544C1702EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search