The Case of the Wandering Scholar (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery Book 2)

In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd is interrupted from her holiday when a neighbor, Jacob Welland, requests her help. Welland is a wealthy, reclusive gentleman dying of consumption who wants Mrs. Rodd to locate his brother, Joshua, missing for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was a brilliant but poor Oxford scholar who disappeared from the university. Friends report seeing him afterward in gypsy camps and wandering the countryside, with the last sighting occurring ten years prior. At that time, Joshua claimed to be learning great secrets from the gypsies that would eventually astound the world. Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford to search for the missing scholar. As her investigation deepens, she uncovers something dark and dangerous hidden within the English countryside.