The Three Body Problem: A Cambridge Mystery - Softcover

Shaw, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749083476 ISBN 13: 9780749083472

Publisher: Allison and Busby, 2005

Synopsis

Cambridge, 1888. Miss Vanessa Duncan is a young schoolmistress recently arrived from the countryside. She loves teaching and finds the world of academia fascinating; everything is going so well. But everything changes when a Fellow of Mathematics, Mr. Akers, is found dead in his room from a violent blow to the head. Invited to dinner by the family of one of her charges, Vanessa meets many of the victim’s colleagues, including Mr. Arthur Weatherburn, who had dined with Mr. Akers the evening of his death and happens to be Vanessa’s upstairs neighbor. Discussing the murder, she learns of Sir Isaac Newton’s yet unsolved ‘n-body problem’, which Mr. Akers might have been trying to solve to win the prestigious prize. As the murder remains unsolved, Vanessa’s relationship with Arthur Weatherburn blossoms. Then another mathematician, Mr. Beddoes is murdered and Arthur is jailed. Convinced of his innocence and with a theory of her own, Vanessa decides to prove her case. But when a third mathematician dies, it becomes a race against time to solve the puzzle. . .

About this title

About the Author

Catherine Shaw is the pseudonym of a mathematician and academic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allison and Busby
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749083476
• ISBN 13: 9780749083472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288