CATHERINE SHAW

Cambridge, 1896. Motherhood and private detecting dont easily go hand in hand, but even with two small children Vanessa Weatherburn still manages to indulge her passion for solving mysteries. When three sombre scholars knock on the door of her family home, Vanessa is presented with perhaps her most puzzling case yet.Professor Gerard Ralston, Head of the History Department at Kings College, London, has been shot dead in his study. As the only suspect left the building a matter of seconds before the shot was heard, and with witnesses testifying that no one left the building after the shot rang out, all are perplexed as to how the killer could have escaped. Vanessa must use all her logic and intuition in order to solve the paradox of a seemingly impossible murder.

It is New Years day, 1900, when the brilliant violinist Sebastian Cavendish is found dead. The last few days of his life are a mystery, but in the final hours of 1899 he wrote a cryptic suicide note mentioning a "cursed inheritance", took poison, and died in agony.Yet his friends and relations are utterly perplexed. The man they knew and grieve for was vivacious, exuberant and extroverted. His fellow musicians speak of his passion, his drive, and his love of living. The socialites he met, all of whom lavished him with praise, saw only a dazzling future ahead of him. So why, his friends and loved ones ask, would he change his plans at such short notice, disappear for days on end, and take his own life?Vanessa Weatherburn, an established detective and ex-tutor to one of Sebastians friends, is engaged to investigate the dead mans final movements. It is a journey which will reveal to her the science of genetics, the history of Sebastians equally brilliant grandfather and the long-kept secrets of the Cavendish family.

Cambridge, 1888. When schoolmistress Vanessa Duncan learns of a murder at St Johns College, little does she know that she will become deeply entangled in the mystery. Dr Geoffrey Akers, Fellow in Pure Mathematics, has been found dead, struck down by a violent blow to the head. What could provoke such a brutal act? Vanessa, finding herself in amongst Cambridges brightest scholarly minds, discovers that the motive may lie in mathematics itself.Drawn closer to the case by a blossoming friendship with mathematician Arthur Weatherburn, Vanessa begins to investigate. When she learns of Sir Isaac Newtons elusive n-body problem and the prestigious prize offered to anyone with a solution, things begin to make sense. But with further deaths occurring and the threat of an innocent man being condemned, Vanessa must hurry with her calculations . . .

Cambridge, 1898. When the unidentified body of a young woman is found floating in the River Cam, journalist Patrick OSullivan calls on the one woman he is sure will solve the mystery: Mrs Vanessa Weatherburn. Vanessa agrees to takes up the challenge, but, with a victim as well as a murderer to identify, she knows it will be no easy task.Forced to go undercover while investigating the owners of Heffers bookshop, and helped along by the cream of Cambridges academic community, Vanessa employs all her skills to reel in the killer - but will it be enough to solve the riddle of the river?

Cambridge, 1892. Four years have passed since Vanessa Duncans memorable introduction to detective work, and her success at proving the innocence of the wrongly accused has not gone unnoticed. With the arrival of the formidable Mrs Bryce-Fortescue, Vanessa is once again called on to help solve a perplexing mystery.Mr George Burton Granger has been found shot dead at the edge of his manor estate. His wife Sylvia, daughter to Mrs Bryce-Fortescue, appears to be the polices main suspect. But could the fragile Sylvia really be capable of such an act? And who is the mysterious young man sighted on the day of the killing? Vanessa must delve into the innermost secrets of the suspects if she is to find the hidden solution.

¿Será la incógnita sugerida por Newton la clave para resolver las misteriosas muertes de los matemáticos?Cambridge, 1888. Vanessa Duncan, una joven institutriz, se ve obligada a recorrer toda Europa para salvar a un hombre de la horca. El joven reo, acusado de la muerte de un matematico, forma parte de un grupo de eruditos que se hallan enfrascados en la resolucion de el problema de los tres cuerpos: una incognita que Isaac Newton planteo y por la que el rey Oscar II de Suecia pagara una sustanciosa suma de dinero a quien la resuelva.

Cambridge, año 1888. Tres profesores de la universidad han sido asesinados misteriosamente cuando investigaban EL PROBLEMA DE LOS TRES CUERPOS, un enigma matemático que Sir Isaac Newton fue el primero en plantear. Vanessa Duncan es una joven institutriz que ha empezado a trabajar recientemente en la ciudad universitaria como maestra de niñas. Gracias a las familias para las que trabaja, tiene la oportunidad de relacionarse con las mas privilegiadas mentes matematicas de la prestigiosa universidad. Ademas, el momento no podria ser mas emocionante: todos se hallan inmersos en la investigacion del problema de los tres cuerpos. El rey Oscar de Suecua ha decidido que para su 60 aniversario concedera un sustancial premio a aquel matematico que consiga resolver el problema, que fue planteado por vez primera por Isaac Newton. Sin embargo, todo da un giro inesperado cuando el profesor adjunto de matematicas, Akers, es encontrado muerto en sus habitaciones de un violento golpe en la nuca y el enamorado de la srta Duncan, otro matematico llamado Weatherburn, es acusado del crimen. Vanessa se vera empujada a una inesperada aventura que la llevara por media Europa en busca del verdadero culpable en una carrera desesperada en contra de la horca. La incognita Newton es una novela trepidante y de lectura compulsiva que nos transporta a la fascinante Inglaterra victoriana.