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.