Professor David Baker
David Baker spent his professional life in higher education, including as Principal
of Plymouth Marjon University. He trained as a musician, winning an organ
scholarship to Cambridge University, graduating with first-class honours. He
then retrained in librarianship. He has five degrees, four fellowships and several
honorary awards. He runs his own consultancy company and still performs as a
professional organist and keyboard player. He holds an Emeritus Chair in Strategic
Information Management and has written widely in the field, with 21 monographs
and over 100 articles and book chapters to his credit, and has edited peer-reviewed
journals, two major monograph series, and an international encyclopedia. He has
published widely in music. His book The Organ: a guide to its construction, history,
usage, and music is a standard text. David writes fiction for fun, with an interest
in detective stories and late Roman Britain. Sometimes he puts the two together.
He also tries his hand at poetry from time to time. Murder in the Cloisters is his
fifth novel, and the fourth of his detective stories, all set in the fictional city of
Yorbridge, and the valley of Hartleydale, whether in the 19th century, or the 21st.
