| Murder in the Museum Contributor(s): Rowland, John (Author), Edwards, Martin (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1464205795 ISBN-13: 9781464205798 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015949196 |
| Series: British Library Crime Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rowland, John: - JOHN ROWLAND (1907-1984) was a publisher, journalist, civil servant and Unitarian minister whose detective novels have long been neglected. This is the first republication of Murder in the Museum since its original appearance in 1938. |