Murder at the Manchester Museum: Museum Mysteries, Book 4

Written by Jim Eldridge

Narrated by Gordon Griffin

1895. Former Scotland Yard detective Daniel Wilson, made famous from his days working the Jack the Ripper case, and his archaeologist sidekick Abigail Fenton are summoned to investigate the murder of a young woman at the Manchester Museum. Though staff remember the woman as a recent and regular visitor, no one appears to know who she is and she has no possessions from which identify her. Seeking help from a local journalist, Daniel hopes to unravel this mystery, but the journey to the truth is fraught with obstacles…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Soundings
• Release date: Mar 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781407987132

Jim Eldridge

Jim Eldridge was born in central London towards the end of World War II, and survived attacks by V2 rockets on the Kings Cross area where he lived. In 1971 he sold his first sitcom to the BBC and had his first book commissioned. Since then he has had more than one hundred books published, with sales of over three million copies. He lives in Kent with his wife.

Reviews for Murder at the Manchester Museum

[Darrell Dyck · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Writing: Great story. Complex, but well-managed. This far into the series, the main characters have been fleshed out and have a good rapport that is entertaining, but not distracting from the main plot. I look forward to their travels to other famous British institutions!

Narration: excellent characterizations. Narrator is skilled enough to add just enough difference in inflection to separate participants in a conversation, without overdoing it and descending into caricatures. He’s well-suited to this period detective drama/romance genre.

Production: By now, they’ve managed to work out most of the production bugs that crop up in earlier volumes (issues at end of chapters with either truncated material or extraneous buzzing, vocal fading as narrator moves away from mic in places – probably when editing in corrected phrases)

All-in-all, a top-notch effort by everyone involved.