A review by ruthieduthie
Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

3.0

This engaging piece of detective fiction is rather like a cross between Agatha Christie and Angela Brazil. There is quite an element of jolly hockey-sticks in the characters of the college girls, which was a little wearying, to be honest, but the mystery is quite good. As it was written in the early 1930's it was interesting to compare Oxford jargon with that used 40 years later when I was an undergraduate: we still said The High and The Broad for High Street and Broad Street but never said the Corn or Gilers for Cornmarket and St Giles. However many of the social traits of Oxford still lingered into the 70's - I expect they have all disappeared now.