Private Language: Robyn Ferrell Book Launch

Can you have a mystery that no one is solving?

Jack, an up-and-coming philosopher, has been offered a large sum by a publisher to find out who wrote a mystery manuscript. He receives as many opinions as there are readers. But who is opposed to the author being revealed, and what lengths are they prepared to go to in order to prevent it? 

A well-known philosopher has been run down in a hit-and-run accident, and is lying between life and death in a coma. Not everyone thinks it was an accident. The Dean of the Faculty is missing, but no one yet has noticed his absence. 

Hannah, who is leading a tribute session on the work of her friend in a coma, finds a damaging secret in her friend's life. Russell, an expert on Wittgenstein's private language argument, doesn't get why what he calls an amorous interlude the new lecturer,…