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According to the Cambridge catalogue, MS. 75 was supposed to be a treatise on the astrolabe (forebear of the sextant) by an astronomer named Simon Bredon. But, in all the 400-odd years the manuscript had been on the Peterhouse shelves, apparently no one had ever bothered to examine it carefully. The astronomical tables it contained were dated 1391 to 1393. Yet, as Derek Price well knew, Bredon had died...
...summertime on Bredon...
...unravelling of the mystery. Third, while putting its readers through all the paces of suspense it turns out to be not a murder story at all. Harriet Vane, heroine of a previous book (in which she was rescued from the gallows by the Pimpernellian sleuth, Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey), is a successful writer of detective stories. On account of the notoriety her trial has given her, she is a little too famed for comfort. But she wants to see her old college again, so accepts the invitation to attend the Shrewsbury gaudy. The week-end reunion is pleasanter than...
...RICHARD GARDEN-Neil Bell-Little, Brown ($2.50). Lengthy, solid novel about a father and his idolized son, by the author of Bredon and Sons...
Died. Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin, 88, famed suffragist; at Bredon's Norton near Tewkesbury, England. She was born in Homer, Ohio, in 1838. At the age of 14 she married one Dr. Canning Woodhull. Soon after his death, when she was 24, she married again, Col. James H. Blood, whom she divorced. She then moved to Manhattan where she became engaged in the brokerage business with her sister, Tennessee Claflin; published a paper know as Woodhull and Claflin''s Weekly. In 1872 they published an article on the personal morality of Henry Ward Beecher, created...