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    Murder at the Ashmolean
    Murder at the Ashmolean
    Murder at the Ashmolean
    Audiobook9 hours

    Murder at the Ashmolean

    Written by Jim Eldridge

    Narrated by Peter Wickham

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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, 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 with rumours of political ructions from South Africa, mislaid artefacts and a lost Shakespeare play, Wilson and Fenton soon find themselves tangled in bureaucracy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoundings Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2019
    ISBN9781407977430
    Murder at the Ashmolean
    Author

    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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    • 4/5
      Well written story. The main female protagonist’s somewhat unbelievable simpering that showed up occasionally in the first book of the series has been thankfully dampened in this book. She now comes across as a strong and believable character.

      Narrator very talented. There were several truncated chapters. Production needs a bit of work.