Murder at the British Museum

I have to say that there is something about these books, that make me kind of want to continue reading them, but I CAN'T STAND ABIGAIL!!!
F-ing Marysue!

I hate how she treats Daniel. “You go and read that book now, chop-chop!” It has absolutely no whatsoever significance in the investigation. There is absolutely nothing in that book that Daniel needs to know, or that tells him anything useful about the situation. And it is not mentioned again. She bullied and mommied him into doing something he didn't want to do, for no reason at all.

She is apparently the leading Egypt expert AND the expert in Roman Britain. And Arthurian legends. I suppose Jim has read Mary Stewart's Merlin books. I bet Abigail is going to be an expert in everything else that is needed for the further adventures of this couple.

I hate it that she goes around blabbering details about the investigation to anyone who asks, and even people who don't ask. She was telling everything to the murderer in the first book and repeated it in this one. And then she boasts about being a detective.

I hate how Jim Eldridge doesn't seem to understand much anything about Victorian society and gender roles and thinking. Daniel warns her about a very shady neighborhood in London. She walks straight in. Daniel tells her it was a very stupid thing to do. She tells him that she has been in very shady neighborhoods and she manages, and she isn't going to be afraid. Daniel apologizes. She's marysue, so she's always right.
I don't think Jim realizes that it doesn't make Abigail look cool and strong, it makes Daniel look bad. Here we have this detective, who used to work for Scotland Yard in Jack the Ripper case, and we have this schoolmarm history nerd who is more streetwise. Sure, Jim. Sure.

And, sure, an Egyptian guy tried to rape her in Egypt. Sure he did. An Englishwoman and archaeologist in broad daylight. Sure, I believe that. And sure she beat him up with a shovel. Sure she did. So that he needed medical attention. Sure.
But a really bitchy move to gut-punch a teenager being held by policemen. No, it doesn't make her look cool, it makes her look dangerously aggressive mad woman.

And then the cooking incident... First time cooking in her life, on a wood stove? And she manages all right? Sure.