Publisher's Synopsis
When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it initially appears to be a death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder an academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? But Inspector Shelley suspects murder by poison; and a potential motive becomes clear when he discovers Arnell's connection to a late Texan oil millionaire. Henry Fairhurst, witness of Arnell's demise, adds his own detective talents to the inspector's as together they set out to determine exactly what happened that day in the British Museum - and why.
