Title: Rattle His Bones (Daisy Dalrymple #8)
First published: 2000
Description: In the summer of 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History with her nephew Derek and her soon-to-be step-daughter Belinda in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London, she soon discovers that the Museum of Natural History is a hothouse of professional rivalry and jealousy, particularly between Dr. Smith Woodward, the Keeper of Geology - responsible for the fossil collection, and Dr. Pettigrew, the Keeper of Minerology -- responsible for the Museum's fabulous gem collection. On a later trip, as closing time nears, Daisy hears two voices followed by a tremendous crash and rushes into the next hall to discover Dr. Pettigrew dead - murdered amidst a pile of dinosaur bones.

Daisy's fiance, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, is assigned to investigate and together they must unravel a most baffling case of missing gems, dispossessed European royalty, professional rivalry and murder most foul.
Subjects: Mystery, Museum curators, Natural History Museum (London, England), Fiction, Daisy Dalrymple (Fictitious character), Women journalists, Large type books, Dalrymple, daisy (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, England, fiction, Women journalists, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: London (England)
Time periods: 1923