The monthly committee meetings at St. Oswald's College were always quite uneventful - until Francis Hatton was found murdered in the meeting room. In 1930s Exbridge, the murder at St. Oswald's shakes the cloistered sanctity of university life. While workmen, colleagues and acquaintances claim alibis, Hatton, a sometime amateur crime-solver himself, has left a list of certain 'detection problems'- cryptic notes in his possessions that hint at dark motives. Inspector Ambrose of Scotland Yard must decipher codes of privilege and status to solve the case and uncover the killer hidden in plain sight. But as the case progresses, Ambrose realizes that privilege can breed resentment, ambition, corruption - even murder. A murder mystery ensconced in old money and ancient tradition, this tale of eccentrics, suspects and secrets within an old university town poses the question: when the ivory tower of privilege crumbles, who really has reason to kill? Victor L. Whitechurch (1868 -1933), was a Church of England clergyman and author, writing books on religion, novels set in the church, thrillers and detective stories. Murder at the College was his last.