Murder in the Queen's Armes, by Aaron Elkins

In this, the third installment in the Gideon Oliver series, Gideon and his new bride, Julia Tendler (whom he had met and fallen in love with in The Dark Place), are on their honeymoon in England. Dorchester, to be precise.



In the prologue, Gideon visits a small museum, the Greater Dorchester Museum of History and Archaeology, to see their famous "Poundbury Man" - a thirty-thousand year old parieto-occipital calvareal fragment. But it has been stolen.

Next, Gideon wants to visit an old friend, Nathan Marcus, an American archaelogist who has riled British archaeologists with his brash manner. He has found a site which he believes will revolutionize the history of stone-age man, but dark deeds are afoot.... is Nate a con-man, or are his rival archaeologists out to get him?

The series
Fellowship of Fear (1982)
The Dark Place (1983)
Murder in the Queen's Armes (1985)
Old Bones (1987)
Curses! (1989)
Icy Clutches (1990)
Make No Bones (1991)
Dead Men's Hearts (1994)
Twenty Blue Devils (1997)
Skeleton Dance (2000)
Good Blood (2004)
Where There's a Will (2005)
Unnatural Selection (2006)
Little Tiny Teeth (2007)
Uneasy Relations (2008)
Skull Duggery (2009)