Praise:
“The mix of mathematics and murder mystery makes for a powerful cocktail. The Oxford Murders is not the first thriller to combine the two, but it is one of the first to do it successfully.” – The Guardian
“Refreshing…the narrator and the reader have together been seduced into the thrill of trying to solve an abstract logical puzzle.” – London Review of Books
“Guillermo Martínez has proved to be one of Argentina’s most distinctive voices. His prose has a natural elegance, and his plots display a classical conception of now a novel should be structured…The Oxford Murders is well crafted and deeply entertaining.” – Times Literary Supplement
“Maths and philosophy meet murder in this clever whodunit set in university Oxford… Evocative settings and an intriguing, well-constructed plot.” – Choice
Oxford Murders, The
By Guillermo Martínez
October 17, 2005ISBN: 1-59692-150-1
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 200
Price: $23.00
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About the Book
On a summer’s day in Oxford, a young Argentine mathematics student finds his landlady – an elderly woman who helped decipher the Enigma Code during World War II – murdered in her house. Meanwhile, leading Oxford mathematician Arthur Seldom receives an anonymous note bearing a circle and the words, “the first of the series,” and a mystery is born.
Murders begin to pile up – an old man on life-support is found dead with needle punctures in his throat; a percussionist at Blenheim Palace dies before the audience’s very eyes – seemingly unconnected except for notes appearing in the math department, for the attention of Seldom.
Seldom guesses that the murders might relate to his latest book, an unexpected best-seller about the parallels between investigations of serial killers and certain mathematical theorems. As he and the young student are drawn further into the game, it is up to mentor and student to solve the puzzle before the killer strikes again.