Murder in the Museum: A British Library Crime Classic (British Library Crime Classics)

Rowland, John

ISBN 10: 1464205795 / ISBN 13: 9781464205798

Published by Poisoned Pen Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Murder in the Museum: A British Library Crime Classic (British Library Crime Classics)
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1464205795
• ISBN 13: 9781464205798
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

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.

About the Author

JOHN ROWLAND (1907-1984) was a publisher, journalist, civil servant, and Unitarian minister whose detective novels have long been neglected.