Murder at the British Museum

Synopsis of Murder at the British Museum

«Murder at the British Museum» is the historical mystery novel by Jim Eldridge, published by Allison & Busby in paperback (352 pages, in English).

In 1894, a prestigious academic is stabbed in a locked cubicle at the British Museum before an exhibition on King Arthur. Daniel Wilson, veteran of the Jack the Ripper case, and archaeologist Abigail Fenton investigate while a new death and pressures from the press, vandals and a fanatical society complicate the case.

This novel is the second instalment of the Museum Mysteries series, featuring Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton. It was published in 2019.

For readers of historical crime fiction and locked-room mysteries set in Victorian London.