Case of the Wandering Scholar

M. C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders''s Victorian detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford academic.

In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services. Mrs. Rodd''s neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive, rich gentleman dying of consumption, and he wants...