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Murder in the Museum - John Rowland
Murder in the Museum
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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... show more
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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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780712357845 (071235784X)
Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it
1.5 Murder in the Museum
Wow, this was really not good. I started listening to it on audiobook, and meant to DNF it, but my phone doesn't unlock while I'm in the car and I kept forgetting to pick a new book before driving off again. By the time I got home last night I was 90% finished and thought 'to hell with it', grabbe...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it
1.5 Murder in the Museum
Wow, this was really not good. I started listening to it on audiobook, and meant to DNF it, but my phone doesn't unlock while I'm in the car and I kept forgetting to pick a new book before driving off again. By the time I got home last night I was 90% finished and thought 'to hell with it', grabbe...
Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it
3.5 Murder in the Museum by John Rowland
A professor of Elizabethan literature dies in the reading room at the British Museum. The second book in my mini-exploration of classic crime fiction set in London, I'm pleased to report that I enjoyed this one significantly more than Murder in Piccadilly. While the cover isn't as aesthetically p...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
1.0 Murder in the Museum
I am throwing in the towel @ 30% because my TBR is way too big to waste time on books I simply cannot enjoy. What is even more aggravating than actually having bought this one (rather than borrowed from the library) is that there were elements that should have made this book great: 1. The setti...
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