An Argentinian mathematician arrives in Oxford to study. Rather than take up a place in the halls of residence, he chooses to rent a basement flat from the widow of a famous academic. Mrs Eagleton is an ideal landlady - she is bright, but is prepared to leave our storyteller to his own devices, as is her niece, Beth. Then one day, he returns to the house to find his landlady dead - and she didn't die from natural causes. What is more, the murderer has left a clue in the form of a symbol. With the help of Arthur Seldom, an old friend of the Eagleton family, and himself an acadmic, our storyteller believes that the symbol is the first of a logical series. He and ...  Read the complete review