British Library Crime Classics: Murder in the Museum (Paperback)

from Kathy89

I enjoyed this book. A mild-mannered, shy man who lives with his sister and longs for an exciting life while working as a librarian at the British Museum discovers a dead man in the reading room. The police are called and it's murder. While telling his sister that evening about the interesting da...

from CaitZ

First published in 1938, this is a vintage style mystery. When Henry Fairport sees a man die in the British Museum Reading Room, he's determined to help the police solve the murder. I liked the style of this and will look for more British Library Crime Classics.

from PilgrimJess

'Murder in the Museum', as its title suggests, opens in the Reading Room of the British Museum, where Henry Fairhurst, a timid, pince-nez wearing henpecked man, is playing one of his favourite games – the Sherlock Holmes game - where he tries to guess the occupation of the other users often getti...

from Welsh_eileen2

Yet another in the British Library series and another great one from John Rowland. Keep them coming! I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Poisoned Pen Press via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.

from Welsh_eileen2

Yet another in the British Library series and another great one from John Rowland. Keep them coming! I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Poisoned Pen Press via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.