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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowland, John, 1907-1984, author.

Contributor:

Edwards, Martin, 1955- writer of introductory text.

Series:

British Library crime classics.

British Library crime classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Museums--England--London--Fiction.

British Museum--Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Physical Description:

209 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First US Trade Paperback Edition.

Place of Publication:

Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, in association with the British Library, 2016.

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.

Notes:

Originally published in 1938.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781464205798

1464205795

071235784X

9780712357845

OCLC:

947914119