![]() ![]() For readers of James Runcie, Alexander McCall Smith, and M. Rodd discovers something dark-and extremely dangerous-lurking in the beautiful English countryside. Rodd travels to Oxford and begins to search for the wandering scholar. ![]() 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. Friends claim to have seen him since, in gypsy camps and wandering around the countryside. Joshua Welland was a scholar at Oxford, brilliant, eccentric, and desperately poor when he disappeared from the university. Rodd to find his brother, who has been missing for fifteen years. Rodd's neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive, rich gentleman dying of consumption, and he wants Mrs. In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request f. ![]() 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. The Case of the Wandering Scholar (Hardback) ![]()
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