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Death of an Elgin marble / David Dickinson.

by Dickinson, David, 1946-

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C & R Crime, c2014.

British Museum -- Fiction.

Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.

Elgin marbles -- Fiction.

Theft from museums -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.

416 p. ; 22 cm.

The British Museum in Bloomsbury is home to one of the Caryatids, a statue of a maiden that acted as one of the six columns in a temple which stood on the Acropolis in ancient Athens. Lord Elgin had brought her to London in the 19th century, and even though now she was over 2,300 years old, she was still rather beautiful - and desirable. Which is why Lord Francis Powerscourt finds himself summoned by the British Museum to attend a most urgent matter. The Caryatid has been stolen and an inferior copy left in her place. Powerscourt agrees to handle the case discreetly - but then comes the first death: an employee of the British Museum is pushed under a rush hour train before he and the police can question him.

Historical mystery fiction.

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