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1	Mistress of the Art of Death more books like this by Ariana Franklin add to wishlist Set in medieval England, this chilling novel combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction, as a mistress of the art of death--an early version of a medical examiner--arrives in Cambridge from Italy to investigate the suspicious deaths of four children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Angels in the Gloom more books like this by Anne Perry add to wishlist In this third installment of mystery writer Anne Perry's World War I saga, the four Reavley siblings continue to pursue the Peacemaker, whose schemes to ensure world peace required the murder of their parents. The wounds that Chaplain Joseph Reavley receives at the front send him home to England. But he will find no peace in the village of St. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ghostwalk more books like this by Rebecca Stott add to wishlist Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge - as well as a four-hundred year-old murder mystery in which Isaac Newton is a suspect. The son of a reclusive historian finds his mother's drowned body in the tributary of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	A deadly brew more books like this by Susanna Gregory add to wishlist The opening of a new and very well-endowed college has created petty in-fighting amongst the academics as new appointments are made. The winter and spring have been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople and the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation and ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.79! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Devil's Disciples more books like this by Susanna Gregory add to wishlist Rumours of plague threaten Cambridge again, ten years after the Black Death had almost laid waste to the town. Neither the church nor its priests had defended people from the disease and now they turn elsewhere for protection, to pagan ritual and magical potions. It is a ripe atmosphere to be exploited by the mysterious 'Sorcerer', an anonymous ... see all copies from $7.63! new only from $7.63! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery more books like this by Marshall Jevons add to wishlist Cambridge economics professor Henry Spearman, must advise US businessman Morris Fain on his attempt to purchase an historic home to serve as a residence for visiting American scholars. But the killings of a young actress and a rival bidder for the house, and an attempt on Fain's life force Spearman to put his mind on murder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Catherine's Heart more books like this by Lawana Blackwell add to wishlist Eighteen-year-old Catherine Rayborn is thrilled with her first taste of independence when she begins Girton College in Cambridge in 1880. Amidst all the excitement, however, comes the painful realization of the vast difference between true love and shallow infatuation. see all copies from $2.11! new only from $14.98!
8	Debts of Dishonor: An Imogen Quy Mystery more books like this by Jill Paton Walsh add to wishlist Booker Prize finalist Walsh returns to her series set at Cambridge Universityfeaturing amateur sleuth Imogen Quy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.47! \| first editions
9	The Wyndham Case more books like this by Jill Paton Walsh add to wishlist In a fictional Cambridge college, an undergraduate is found dead in the Wyndham Case, a most peculiar private library which just happens to be worth a fortune to the college. It is not until another student is found dead in a fountain that Imogen Quy, the college nurse, uncovers the murderers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.54! \| first editions
10	Period Piece more books like this by Gwen Raverat add to wishlist Subtitled A CAMBRIDGE CHILDHOOD, Gwen Raverat's engaging and hilarious memoir of her life up to the age of 18 was called "an adorable book" by Rose Macaulay. It recreates vividly the antics of Raverat's eccentric intellectual family--she was Charles Darwin's granddaughter--and is illustrated with her own witty drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.93! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Period piece : a Cambridge childhood more books like this by Gwen Raverat add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $26.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Matricide at St Martha's more books like this by Ruth Dudley Edwards add to wishlist Robert Amiss expects a quiet year in the "ivory tower" of college life after he is awarded a one-year fellowship. But brutal academic politics grip the campus when St. Martha's College receives a huge bequest. Conflicts rage over how to spend the money. When Dame Maud Buckbarrow, who believes that the funds should support the austere areas of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Cambridge Scientific Minds more books like this by Peter Harman (Editor), Simon Mitton (Editor) add to wishlist Since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.38! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Blue Suit: A Memoir of Crime more books like this by Richard Rayner add to wishlist A Cambridge alumnus details his life and crimes, beginning with his boarding school childhood--spent lying about his father, a con artist who faked his death. Rayner continues through his college years, where he forged checks, stole first editions of books, gambled, burgled, and graduated. As a would-be writer in London, the cons continued ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Cambridge Blue more books like this by Alison Bruce add to wishlist Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge's Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush out the killer, even though it means risking his job ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.92! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits more books like this by Edward Albert Shils (Editor), Carmen Blacker (Editor) add to wishlist This is a collection of portraits of twelve outstanding women who lived and worked in Cambridge during the century before women were admitted fully to membership of the University. The subjects include Jane Harrison, distinguished scholar of Greek religion, Mrs Sidgwick, founder of Newnham College, Eileen Power, medieval historian, Nora Chadwick, ... see all copies from $4.97! new only from $13.34! \| signed copies
17 view cover	Cambridge Minds more books like this by Richard Mason (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of essays by a group of leading authorities is addressed primarily to a non-specialist readership, with the aim of introducing people and achievements associated with the University of Cambridge over the past 150 years. It explains, in simple terms, what has been done in a wide variety of fields - including philosophy (Ray Monk on ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $24.99! \| SVS
18 view cover	Cambridge Contributions more books like this by Sarah Ormrod (Editor) add to wishlist Written primarily for a non-specialist audience, these essays describe contributions made by some of the University of Cambridge's most colourful and able characters in a number of academic disciplines. The essays reveal particularly fertile periods of development and chart voyages of discovery which have occurred all over Cambridge, under group ... see all copies from $21.41! new only from $31.17! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Invention of Jane Harrison more books like this by Mary Beard add to wishlist Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionised our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman - as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in "A Room of One's Own", she claims to have glimpsed ... see all copies from $8.96! new only from $17.42! \| SVS
20 view cover	Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, Lions and Shadows. The book evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as Isherwood knew it and describes his life as a tutor, a medical student, and a struggling writer. Above all, Lions and Shadows is a captivating account of a young novelist's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Greek and Roman Art more books like this by Eleni Vassilika add to wishlist The Fitzwilliam Museum has arguably one of the finest collections of antiquities in the United Kingdom. Assembled mainly through bequests and gifts, it is a stunning exhibition of connoisseurship. This splendidly illustrated book presents sixty-four images of the finest examples of Greek, Etruscan, Cypriot, and Roman art dating from the Bronze Age ... see all copies from $5.62! new only from $24.00!
22 view cover	A Short History of Cambridge University Press more books like this by Michael Black, M.D. add to wishlist A Short History of Cambridge University Press is an account of the world's oldest press, from the publication of the Press's first book in 1584 through to the present day. It emphasises the constitutional basis of the Press, which is an essential part of its parent university, and highlights the moments of change and crisis: Richard Bentley's ... see all copies from $4.70! new only from $33.13!
23 view cover	The Making of the Wren Library: Trinity College, Cambridge more books like this by David McKitterick (Editor) add to wishlist The Library at Trinity College, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and completed in 1695, is known all over the world for its books, its architecture, and its sculpture. Each of these aspects is authoritatively examined in this volume, as David McKitterick, Howard Colvin, and Malcolm Baker explore the ways in which seventeenth-century ideas were ... see all copies from $64.26! new only from $64.26!
24 view cover	Cambridge Architecture: A Concise Guide more books like this by Nicholas Ray add to wishlist Cambridge Architecture offers a brief, illustrated introduction to the architecture of Cambridge, using selected examples of buildings from the Middle Ages to the present day as the basis for an investigation into architecture itself. The author describes the way in which buildings are composed, and how they may in turn be 'read', and introduces a ... see all copies from $22.95! new only from $31.17! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Cambridge more books like this by John Curtis (Photographer) add to wishlist Detailed maps of each city center, with illustrated walking tours. Alphabetical lists of all attractions with their locations and telephone numbers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.58! \| first editions

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