TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saunders,Kate
TI  - The case of the wandering scholar
T2  - Laetitia Rodd mystery
SN  - 9781399125093
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leicester [England]
PB  - Thorpe, Isis
KW  - Rodd, Laetitia (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Women detectives
KW  - England
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption, and implores her 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 had taken 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 it was rumoured he was learning great secrets that would one day astound the world. And whilst her old friend Inspector Blackbeard doesn't want to hear any nonsense about gypsies or secrets, Mrs Rodd is convinced that something very sinister is lurking in this peaceful landscape
ER  -