Murder at the British Museum
Written by Jim Eldridge
Narrated by Peter Wickham
4/5
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About this audiobook
1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen’s convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk promoting the museum’s new “Age of King Arthur” exhibition when he was stabbed repeatedly in the chest. Having forged a strong reputation working alongside the inimitable Inspector Abberline on the Jack the Ripper case, Daniel Wilson is called in to solve the mystery, and he brings his expertise and archaeologist Abigail Fenton with him.
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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Reviews for Murder at the British Museum
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was an entertaining book, engaging setting and characters. I enjoyed it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another good mystery filled with plenty of twists and turns and hood characters. The narrator is good and handles the male /female voices well. It looses some points due to the quality of the recording, a lot of the chapters are clipped right at the end and so u loose half of the last word. More of an annoying thing and doesn't spoil it too much.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The reader was the best part of this audiobook. There are truncated chapters and audio issues with the recording, as I've noticed with other books by this publisher.
Subtlety is lost on this author. Every character has to be writ large, so that the points he wants to convey are not missed: no fear of that, as they are hammered home over and over again. One of the protagonists is a strong female lead! She's an internationally known archaeologist! She's traveled alone aroundv the world! She's living with a former policeman without being married to him! She's strong and capable! She doesn't need a man!
One of those things--even two--would be believable at a stretch for the time period. But ALL of them? Let alone that in an attempt to make hey seem intelligent and resourceful, she calls so many shots during the course of the investigation that we are left wondering how on earth her partner ever managed at Scotland Yard.
Clearly a lot of research was done to write this book, but it needed to be edited down. Any opportunity to name-drop a famous figure if the time and what they're famous for is exploited; interesting facts about London take up unnecessary paragraphs that only decrease the believability of the characters. But then this is contrasted with the use of words and phrases (stakeout, bed and breakfast) that didn't come into usage until the 1940s.
The bones of a fun, interesting mystery are here. But the book is just too much of everything to be enjoyable. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book. Characters I will want to meet up with again.