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    Murder in the Museum
    Murder in the Museum
    Murder in the Museum
    Audiobook6 hours

    Murder in the Museum

    Written 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 two deaths? 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoundings
    Release dateMay 1, 2017
    ISBN9781407965031
    Author

    John Rowland

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

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    • 3/5
      Very well narrated, with excellent voices and dialects — the only reason I gave it any stars at all — but the plot was pitiful. I don’t know why this was revived as an example of Golden Age British detective fiction. The murderer came out of nowhere rather than being established early in the story (a mystery fiction never-do!), and his motive was pretty flimsy for a reign of terror. Even the Scotland Yard inspector thought that only insanity could truly explain it all. Look elsewhere on Scribd for far better examples of the Golden Age — there are plenty here that are not just well read but well written.