{"product_id":"the-case-of-the-wandering-scholar-paperback","title":"The Case of the Wandering Scholar - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Mrs. Rodd to find his brother, who has been missing for fifteen years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Joshua Welland was a scholar at Oxford, brilliant, eccentric, and desperately poor when he disappeared from the university. Friends claim to have seen him since, in gypsy camps and wandering around the countryside. But the last sighting was ten years before-when Joshua claimed to be learning great secrets from the gypsies that would one day astound the whole world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford and begins to search for the wandering scholar. But as she investigates, Mrs. Rodd discovers something dark-and extremely dangerous-lurking in the beautiful English countryside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For readers of James Runcie, Alexander McCall Smith, and M. C. Beaton, \u003ci\u003eLaetitia Rodd and the Mystery of the Wandering Scholar \u003c\/i\u003eis a delightful new mystery about Victorian England and an indomitable female detective.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e is an author and journalist who has worked for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written numerous books for adults and children, including\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFive Children on the Western Front\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Costa Children's Book Award. \u003ci\u003eThe Secrets of Wishtide\u003c\/i\u003e was the 2016 debut of the Laetitia Rodd Mystery series. Saunders lives in London.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770449232160,"sku":"9781632868398","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4672a1109e1410bac92d588ef22f24fc.webp?v=1780371860","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-case-of-the-wandering-scholar-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}