The Three Body Problem: A Cambridge Myster - Softcover

Shaw, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749083476 ISBN 13: 9780749083472

Verlag: Allison & Busby, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Cambridge, 1888. Miss Vanessa Duncan is a young schoolmistress recently arrived from the countryside. She loves teaching and finds the world of academia fascinating; everything is going so well. But everything changes when a Fellow of Mathematics, Mr. Akers, is found dead in his room from a violent blow to the head. Invited to dinner by the family of one of her charges, Vanessa meets many of the victim s colleagues, including Mr. Arthur Weatherburn, who had dined with Mr. Akers the evening of his death and happens to be Vanessa s upstairs neighbor. Discussing the murder, she learns of Sir Isaac Newton s yet unsolved n-body problem , which Mr. Akers might have been trying to solve to win the prestigious prize. As the murder remains unsolved, Vanessa s relationship with Arthur Weatherburn blossoms. Then another mathematician, Mr. Beddoes is murdered and Arthur is jailed. Convinced of his innocence and with a theory of her own, Vanessa decides to prove her case. But when a third mathematician dies, it becomes a race against time to solve the puzzle. . .

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Catherine Shaw is a pseudonym. She is a mathematician and academic and writer of murder mysteries. She lives in Paris, France.

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• Verlag: Allison & Busby
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0749083476
• ISBN 13: 9780749083472
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
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