Author

Contributions

  • Edwards, Martin, 1955- writer of introductory text - Contributor

Publication

2016 - , Arizona

Language

English

Word Count

52,250 words, Guess

Page Count

209 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781464205798
  • Open LibraryOL27210298M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.912
  • LCCPR6035

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • British Library crime classics

Other Editions

  • Murder in the museum2016-01-01

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