The Oxford Murders - Guillermo Martinez

...take up a place in the halls of residence, he chooses to rent a basement flat from the widow of a famous academic. Mrs Eagleton is an ideal landlady - she is bright, but is prepared to leave our storyteller to his own devices, as is her niece, Beth. Then one day, he returns to the house to find his landlady dead - and she didn't die from natural causes. What is more, the murderer has left a clue in the form of a symbol. With the help of Arthur Seldom, ...
...acadmic, our storyteller believes that the symbol is the first of a logical series. He and Seldom are soon proved right when two more deaths occur, also accompanied by symbols scrawled on pieces of paper. Is Arthur Seldom genuinely trying to help, or does he know more than he is letting on? Will our hero be able to solve the murders before a fourth occurs? The idea of a thoroughly British murder in the thoroughly British university town of Oxford, ...

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