Bibliograph

Murder in the museum, John Rowland ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards

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Murder in the museum, John Rowland ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Murder in the museum

Oclc number

947914119

Responsibility statement

John Rowland ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards

Series statement

British Library crime classics

Summary

When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are aroused when he finds a packet of poisoned sugared almonds in the dead man's pocket; and a motive becomes clearer when he discovers Arnell's connection to a Texan oil millionaire. Soon another man plunges hundreds of feet into a reservoir on a Yorkshire moor. What can be the connection between two deaths so different, and so widely separated? The mild-mannered museum visitor Henry Fairhurst adds his detective talents to Inspector Shelley's own, and together they set about solving one of the most baffling cases Shelley has ever encountered

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