Murder in the Museum (Fethering Series #4)

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When a human skeleton is found buried on the grounds of the famed Bracketts House--the historic home of the author Esmond Chadleigh--Carole Seddon and Jude must determine whether the beloved writer's sword was mightier than his pen...and whether the snobbish, squabbling trustees of Bracketts House have something to hide....

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When a human skeleton is found buried on the grounds of the famed Bracketts House--the historic home of the author Esmond Chadleigh--Carole Seddon and Jude must determine whether the beloved writer's sword was mightier than his pen...and whether the snobbish, squabbling trustees of Bracketts House have something to hide....

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In Brett's fourth chatty, genteel Fethering mystery (after 2002's The Torso in the Town), Carole Seddon finds herself a member of the Bracketts Trust, which is responsible for the upkeep of Bracketts, former home of West Sussex litterateur Esmond Chadleigh. Tension arises between the Trust's new director, Gina Locke, who represents the new world of "management structures," and former trustee Sheila Cartwright, who's from the old school of local volunteers. While they wrangle over Bracketts's future, a skeleton turns up in the garden. Though it's obviously been there a long time, Sheila does her best to keep this disturbing find quiet. When a female American academic shows up to research a new biography of Chadleigh, she's stonewalled by the Trust's dawdling biographer-elect and grandson of the author, Graham Chadleigh-Bewes. Clearly something more than mere footnotes is being concealed. Eager to ferret out the truth, the uptight Carole is unable to rely on her usual partner-in-detection, the liberated Jude Nichols, since Jude is looking after a dying former lover. At times, subtle character interaction, at which Brett excels, threatens to take over the novel, but the mystery gathers steam after another, fresher body appears. Even Jude and lover have a part to play in its resolution, and Brett provides a shocking revelation or two at the end to bring a proper ending to a proper story. (Aug. 5) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Home Office retiree Carole Seddon and her unconventional neighbor, Jude (Death on the Downs), become involved in another murder case when a skeleton is found on the grounds of Bracketts House, once home of a noted author. Unfortunately, any hint of scandal could mean the end of promised new funds for the impoverished museum. Another noteworthy series addition from the prolific author. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Fethering village neighbors Carole Seddon and Jude Nichol (The Torso in the Town, 2002, etc.) poke at West Sussex secrets past and present with a drollness and an edge Miss Marple never dreamed of. Like everybody else in England, Carole once memorized the late poet Esmond Chadleigh's "Threnody for the Lost," written to commemorate his brother's heroic demise in Flanders. Now that she's been named to the Board of Trustees of Bracketts, Chadleigh's home, she's bored by the Board's squabbles (the current director and her predecessor are fighting over control; everyone is hounding Esmond's son to finish his long-overdue biography of the great man; a pushy rival biographer from America is insisting she have access to Esmond's papers) and jealous that Jude, with nary a word of explanation, has taken sickly academic Laurence Hawker into her home. But Carole perks up when a long-dead body is disinterred from the town's gardens. Alas, the corpse's identity is not disinterred with him. Before it's revealed, a fresh death will follow, and poor Carole and that pushy biographer will be trapped in a priest's hole that houses a vital cache of letters to Esmond's father. This fourth in a series could have used a little tweaking, but Brett provides a wry dissection of fundraising efforts, infighting among the nonprofit set, writing styles between the wars, and friends who don't confide in each other.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786186846
  • Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/28/2004
  • Format: CD
  • Edition description: Unabridged, 7 CDs
  • Series: Fethering Series, #4
  • Product dimensions: 6.66 (w) x 6.46 (h) x 1.15 (d)

Meet the Author

Simon Brett is the author of the Fethering Mystery series and the Mrs. Pargeter Mystery series, and the creator of the Charles Paris mysteries. He is also a former president of Britain's Crime Writers' Association and Chair of the Society of Authors.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    Great installment in this amateur sleuth series

    After a successful career in the Home Office, Carole Seddon retires to the seashore resort town of Fethering in West Sussex where she becomes friends with Jude, her next door neighbor. They partner up solving several local homicides. Carole has recently taken a volunteer position of trustee at Bracketts House, the home where the famous Catholic writer Esmond Chadleigh once lives. The property was turned into a heritage house and is in need of outside funding to keep on operating.

    In the kitchen garden, a skeleton is found that dates back over seventy years. The find horrifies many of the trustees who don¿t want the author¿s named sullied. When Carole and Sheila Cartwright, the unofficial head of Bracketts House, are walking toward their cars after a trustee meeting, a shot rings out killing Sheila instantly. Carole believes there is a connection between the bodies found in the kitchen garden and Sheila¿s death and she is determined to find the common link knowing she may already be in danger.

    Although Jude isn¿t working the investigation as much as usual because she is nursing a very sick friend, Carole picks up the slack and for once is not overshadowed by her best friend. She proves she can investigate a murder on her own and is able to subtly put the pieces together to figure out why the homicide occurred in the first place. Carole ferrets out the secrets and scandals of Bracketts house, which makes the heritage home more appealing to visitors and readers.

    Harriet Klausner

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