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The Oxford Murders

By Guillermo Martinez

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| eBook | 9780748132584

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On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body.

Then follow more murders - an elderly Continue

On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body.

Then follow more murders - an elderly man on a life-support machine is found dead with needle marks in this throat; the percussionist of an orchestra at a concert at Blenheim Palace dies before the audience's very eyes - seemingly unconnected except for notes appearing in the maths department, for the attention of Seldom. Why is he being targeted as the recipient of these coded messages? All he can conjecture is that it might relate to his latest book, an unexpected bestseller about serial killers and the parallels between investigations into their crimes and certain mathematical theorems.
It is left to Seldom and a postgraduate mathematics student to work out the key to the series of symbols before the killer strikes again.

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  • The Oxford Murders

    The Oxford Murders Guillermo Martinez Penguin Paperback 208 pages September 2006 Click here to read reviewer Mervi Hamalainen's take on The Oxford Murders. As a professor of Mathematics in Buenos Aires with a post-doctoral from Oxford University, Gui ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

  • The Oxford Murders

    The Oxford Murders Guillermo Martinez Penguin Paperback 208 pages September 2006 Click here to read reviewer Sonali T. Sikchi's take on The Oxford Murders. Martinez mixes mathematics and murder mystery in a clever way. While it’s not necessary to kno ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • Fairly good. Though it was a little bit disappointed about the mystery of the answer of series. I thought the author can develop the plot against the linkage between the series and murder in a better way. Now it is too easy to guess who is the murderer and the relationship between Seldom and the rel ... (continue)

    Fairly good. Though it was a little bit disappointed about the mystery of the answer of series. I thought the author can develop the plot against the linkage between the series and murder in a better way. Now it is too easy to guess who is the murderer and the relationship between Seldom and the related characters in the story.

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    yakult said on May 18, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • The plot was interesting, but the ending is a little bit disappointing.
    Buillermo Martinez is mathematician himself therefore the book contained some thinkings in the maths field and philosophy.

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    orangezoo said on Dec 29, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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