Murder at the Ashmolean: Murder is the new exhibit at Oxford's famous museum
By Jim Eldridge
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1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by local police, but with an apparent lack of motive for such action, the museum's administrator, Gladstone Marriott, suspects foul play. With his cast-iron reputation for shrewdness, formed during his time investigating the case of Jack the Ripper alongside Inspector Abberline, private enquiry agent Daniel Wilson is a natural choice to discreetly explore the situation, ably assisted by his partner, archaeologist-cum-detective Abigail Fenton.
Yet their enquiries are hindered from the start by an interfering lone agent from Special Branch, ever secretive and intimidating in his methods. With rumours of political ructions from South Africa, mislaid artefacts and a lost Shakespeare play, Wilson and Fenton soon find themselves tangled in bureaucracy. Making unlikely alliances, the pair face players who live by a different set of rules and will need their intellect and ingenuity to reveal the secrets of the aristocracy.
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.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I really wanted to like this. A mystery series set in some of my favorite places! And he'd written so many books. So I was surprised at how poorly it was written, and how the setting and timeframe seemed to play no role in the story. With the except of the Alfred jewel, there was no portrayal of the museum's layout or visual appeal. No place-holding images of Oxford. No rich descriptions of Victorian life. It could have been set now and it wouldn't make any difference. Perhaps it was because I hadn't read the previous books in the series, but I didn't care about any of the characters. Read it through but very disappointing.