Was It Murder?

Was It Murder? by Hilton, James. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780486237749.

This book takes place in that most traditional and confounding of English settings, the public school. Colin Revell, impudent Oxonian and sometime sleuth, returns to his alma mater Oakington to puzzle over a schoolboys "accidental" death. The accidents multiply in frequency and horror as Colin idly pokes about the Gothic quads, and the tightly modulated suspense ripens with a generous foretaste of Hiltons later acclaimed talent: finely perceived, individual characters, overwhelming atmosphere, and full complement of adventure and romance.