The Case of the Wandering Scholar by Kate Saunders

Hoop skirt, tea and murder: a new case for Laetitia Rodd, the investigator who sees everything and nobody notices. Laetitia Rodd is the woman for discreet investigations in Victorian society. Her mission: to track down Joshua Welland. Once a brilliant Oxford student, he now wanders through the woods in a ragged figure and makes allusions to a dark secret. Mrs. Rodd uses her connections to the priest of Freshley Wood to find Joshua's trail. But then the priest is murdered. Is Joshua involved in the terrible crime? and “Laetitia Rodd means pure reading pleasure. and ” Sunday Times