Thursday, May 9, 2024

"Murder in the Field" by Roy Lewis


Arnold Landon has a great opportunity to partially escape the politics of the Morpeth Department of Antiquities & Museums, and he seizes it. He’s seconded (or loaned) to an archaeological dig under scientists from York; they’re excavating a field which contains all kinds of Roman and Celtic artifacts. 

He quickly discovers the tensions among the team. Led by his friend Rhea Williams, it includes four students and a professor. The lone woman student seems expert at playing off the men, including the professor, until one night at dinner, and after too much to drink, she ridicules him in front of the team and a guest. Tensions break into open hostilities. 

 

We know where this headed; the woman student is found murdered in a ditch. Detective Inspector Pat Garrett thinks he knows the likely killer. Landon, taking something of a smaller role than he has in previous mysteries, is troubled by something e thinks he should remember. When he does, the story veers in another direction, and more lives are threatened.

 

Roy Lewis

Murder in the Field
 is the 12th Arnold Landon mystery by British author Roy Lewis. Like its predecessors, the reader is treated to not only a good story but also a readable and rather fascinating look into an archaeological dig.

 

Lewis (1933-2019) was the author of some 60 other mysteries, novels, and short story collections. His Inspector Crow series includes A Lover Too ManyMurder in the MineThe Woods MurderError of Judgment, and Murder for Money, among others. The Eric Ward series, of which The Sedleigh Hall Murder is the first (and originally published as A Certain Blindness in 1981), includes 17 novels. Lewis lived in northern England. 

 

Related:

 

Murder Under the Bridge by Roy Lewis.

 

Murder in the Tower by Roy Lewis

 

Murder in the Church by Roy Lewis.

 

Murder in the Barn by Roy Lewis.

 

Murder in the Manor by Roy Lewis.

 

Murder in the Farmhouse by Roy Lewis.

 

Murder in the Stableyard by Roy Lewis.

 

Murder in the House by Roy Lewis.

 

Murder by the Quay by Roy Lewis.

 

Error in Judgment by Roy Lewis

 

Murder at the Folly by Roy Lewis.

 

Some Thursday Readings

 

Murders for May – Jeremy Black at The Critic Magazine.

 

Poet Laura: Moon Landing – Michelle Rinaldi Ortega at Tweetspeak Poetry.

 

The Liberal Arts: Take It or Leave It – Elizabeth Stice at Front Porch Republic.

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