Murder in the Museum by John Rowland
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781464205798 |
| ISBN 10 | 1464205795 |
| Title | Murder in the Museum |
| Author | John Rowland |
| Series | British Library Crime Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Year published | 2016-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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