num_pages: 256
description: Murder at the Museum of Natural History marks the return of Lieutenant William Donovan to the mystery arena. In his fourth adventure, Donovan continues his trademark pursuit of killers who use exotic weapons to shed blood on the floors of Big Apple landmarks. This time he tracks a murderer who steals a priceless one-thousand-year-old dagger - a gift Marco Polo was carrying to Kublai Khan from the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII - and strikes at the gala opening celebration of a world-famous archaeological exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. In the course of several very busy days and nights, Donovan sorts clues and interrogates suspects while keeping company with the victim's movie star wife. The stunning and infamous Katy Lucca has become, overnight, the world's wealthiest, most beautiful, and, clearly, hottest-blooded widow. Several questions loom: Who killed playboy billionaire and archaeologist Paolo Lucca? Is Katy involved in her husband's death? How will Donovan handle some very shady, and extremely dangerous, characters - provincial terrorists and Russian mafiosi - who fled to New York from the ashes of the old Soviet Union? The Treasure of the Silk Road exhibit, an incredible display of artifacts from the old Silk Road that ran from Cathay to the West, has brought all of these characters together. Now Donovan must search through layers of deception and the halls of the American Museum of Natural History to uncover a brutal murderer.
language: English
title: Murder at the Museum of Natural History
titlecomplete: Murder at the Museum of Natural History (Bill Donovan, #4)
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 39
series: Bill Donovan
publisher: Worldwide Library