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Jim Elridge is a thriller, young adult fantasy, children’s fiction, historical mystery, and young adult fiction author from Kent. The author was born in London’s Euston suburb in 1944 and loves to style himself a survivor of V1 and V2 rockets during the Second World War.

Elridge quit school as a sixteen-year-old and held a variety of jobs before he went to train to become a teacher. He would go on to teach in many low-income areas in Luton, even as he built a career as a children’s book author and scriptwriter. He would later on quit his teaching career to become a full-time author.

Starting in 2010, he quit writing children’s fiction and scriptwriting as he was more focused on adult historical crime fiction. In the more than four decades that he spent writing scripts, he would be responsible for more than 250 broadcast scripts in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Some of his works include “King Street Junior,” a long-running comedy drama for the BBC. As a scriptwriter, he penned more than twenty series for ITV and the BBC.

Living in the post-Second World War era, his family did not have a TV and hence much of the entertainment was radio and reading. Jim Elridge particularly loved listening to the “Goon Show” on the radio.
Elridge began writing in his late teenage years as he got into short stories, and poems even though none of these will ever see the light of day. In 1965 he was fortunate enough to get one of his poems published in “The Tribune,” and this led to several of his works getting published in small magazines and several other places.

In 1966, he became a performance poet, playing to large audiences across the UK. In 1968, he was on Radio 1 show “Night Ride” as a guest poet interviewed by John Peel. By then, he had made the decision that he was interested in writing more fiction apart from poetry. He wanted to pen full-length fiction and scripts too.

His debut fiction work was published in 1971 and this was the same year he had his first commission as he was contracted to develop “Parsley Sidings” which starred Ian Lavender, Arthur Lowe, Liz Fraser, and Kenneth Connor.

Over the years, Jim Eldridge has written in a range of genres both as a scriptwriter and author. He has said that for him all he wants when he is writing is to pen a good story with interesting lead characters and a great supporting cast. He does this regardless of whether he is penning stories for children or adults.

While he has become a very successful author, he had said that had he not been an author he would have still been a teacher. Elridge always loved the teaching profession and particularly working with underprivileged learners in Dunstable and Luton.

He had then specialized in working with kids with additional needs and for a year, he taught at an ESN school where he used to communicate in Makaton.
After living in Cumbria and Ireland for many years, Jim and Lynne his wife now make their home in Kent.

“Murder at the Fitzwilliam” by Jim Elridge opens with the imminent launch of a new Egyptian artifact collection by the Fitzwilliam Institution. The employees were in the process of delivering and unpacking the boxes when what was believed to be an empty sarcophagus is found to have a dead body in it.

Sir William McKenzie calls upon Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson to do a low-key investigation since he does not want to attract the interest of the press. If the press got wind of the situation, it would likely jeopardize the exhibition.
First things first, Wilson needs to identify the victim with hardly any personal details to go with. The detective ropes in Abigal Fenton and while they initially have their disagreements, they soon come to an understanding. But Daniel seems to like his partner a lot more than he would wish to acknowledge.

Despite diligent investigations and a lot of leg work, they cannot seem to make any headway and things only get more complicated when they discover a second body. By this time, their employer has little option but informs the police which just complicates things for Daniel and Abigail.

Jim Elridge’s novel “Murder at the British Museum” is set in 1894 where the British Museum is holding a special exhibition.

The exhibition will be featuring a new work by Professor Lance Pickering that asserts that Ambrosius Aurelianus and King Arthur are the same person. When the professor arrives to lecture at the museum he is stabbed while in the restroom.
Abigail Fenton and Daniel Wilson are contracted to solve the mysterious murder by the museum. They are well qualified for the job as Abigail is a historian and archeologist and Danel is a private investigator who is a former detective with Scotland Yard.
But things get complicated when some youths come to the exhibition and soon after they break a glass case. Someone has also painted in red paint “Who Killed Ambrosius,” even as the museum is receiving letters demanding more money.
Finally, the man who published professor Lance’s book is stabbed in the exhibition hall while another youth is also stabbed in the former professor’s home.

The police superintendent believes the man responsible for all the crimes is the professor’s illegitimate daughter. But Daniel and Abigail are not so easy to convince as they continue with their investigations.
The two find themselves in a race to save the Museum’s reputation while the murderer grows increasingly worried that they are getting too close.

“Murder at the Ashmolean” by Jim Elridge is set in 1895. An executive who is working for the Oxford-based Ashmolean Museum is found murdered, with a single bullet hole in his forehead and the murder weapon close by.
The local police have declared his death a suicide since there is hardly any motive for anyone to kill the man. However, Gladstone Marriott the administrator of the museum suspects there is something fishy.

He knows Daniel Wilson as a private investigator who had showcased incredible shrewdness investigating the Ripper case. He brings alongside him Abigail Fenton an archeologist turned detective and the two promise to conduct a low-key investigation.

But their work immediately runs into headwinds as a lone agent from the Special Branch known for his intimidating and secretive methods interferes with them.

Meanwhile, there are also rumors of political ructions from Apartheid South Africa, lost Shakespeare play, and mislaid artifacts which tangles them in all manner of bureaucracy.

They are forced to make unlikely alliances but they are confronting players who seem to live by a different set of rules. They may also have to dig deep into their ingenuity and intellect to reveal the many secrets being held by the aristocracy.