Oxford Blood

Oxford Blood
Oxford Blood  
Cover of recent US paperback edition
Author(s) Antonia Fraser
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Jemima Shore Mysteries
Genre(s) Mystery novel
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) & W. W. Norton (USA)
Publication date 6 June 1985
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 208 pp (hardback edition) & 224 pp (US paperback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-297-78606-7 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-393-31824-9 (US paperback edition)
OCLC Number 11666793
Preceded by Cool Repentance
Followed by Jemima Shore's First Case

Oxford Blood is a crime novel by Antonia Fraser first published in 1985.[1]

The novel begins with reporter Jemima Shore making a television documentary at Oxford University. Most prominent among the undergraduates is Lord Saffron, a wealthy, twenty-year-old heir to a former (British) Foreign Secretary. Soon she discovers that there is a mystery about Lord Saffron's birth and bloodline, based on the confession of a dying midwife. Later another undergraduate is murdered, and a series of attempts are made to kill Saffron, including a night-time attack while punting on the River Thames.

References

  1. ^ Oxford Blood, [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ Fantastic Fiction.

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