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Murder in the Museum, A British Library Crime Classic

✍ Scribed by Rowland, John

Book ID
109244429
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Year
2016
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
120 KB
Series
Inspector Shelley 6
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

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Overview: John Bude was a pseudonym used by Ernest Carpenter Elmore who was a British born writer. As well as writing he also worked as a stage producer and director. More notably for us though, he was a co-founder of the Crime Writers Association (CWA) in 1953. He was born 1901 and passed away 1957