Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh was an English author best known for her Booker prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels. She is also well known for writing the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries series with Dorothy L. Sayers. Patton Walsh was born as Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert. She was married to Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford, which made her Baroness Hemingford or The Lady Hemingford. For university, she attended St. Anne’s College, Oxford and graduated from there in 1959. Jill received the CBE for services to literature in 1996. Then, in 1998, she won the Phoenix Award from the Children’s Literature Association for A Chance Child. The Wyndham Case is the first book in the Imogen Quy book series. The book starts with what seems like a tragic accident. Phillip Skellow has slipped, banged his head, and ultimately died from his injuries. There are rumors that he was stealing books, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was an accident. However, the college nurse, Imogen Quy, has her doubts. When another student is found dead, drowned in an ornamental fountain, she knows that she is correct and sets out to investigate.