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Murder in the Museum

By: John Rowland
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
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When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic? 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 the two deaths? 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.

©2016 Estate of John Rowland (P)2017 Soundings Cosy Crime Fiction Mystery
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A light read but enjoyable. Some nice touches of humour and well characterised - don’t expect too much from the plot.

Pleasant diversion

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there's a reason why some books have been out of print for 70 years.

despite being set partly in the British museum, near which I live now, and partly in Sheffield where I was raised I found it difficult to engage with this dull grind of a story.

however it was very well read by Peter Wickham who is one of the best narrators around

fairly tedious

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