Let's Play Dead by Sheila Connolly

3"Let's Play Dead by Sheila Connolly is the second in the Museum Mystery series. It picks up about three months after the first book, Fundraising the Dead, ends. Nell Pratt is now the president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia and is trying to get the job down pat plus hiring a couple of new employees. At the same time, the Philadephia children's museum, Let's Play, is planning an exhibit based on the Harriet the Hedgehog books, which will feature interactive characters from the books that are powered by electricity. Arabella Heffernan, the president of the children's museum, asks Nell over to see the exhibit before it opens to the public. While there, one of the electrical installers gets a bad shock from the hedgehog, and the next day an electrician dies from electrocution. Something just isn't wired right...." 

영어문장이나 책의 구성이 평이해서 읽기가 쉬운 원서다. 다만 이야기 전개가 좀 지루한 면이 있다는 것이 이 책의 한계다. 전기 감전사, 새로운 인물들의 과거와 사건들, IRA, 비호감의 동화작가, 회복, 박물관의 새로운 전개 등이 이 책의 전체를 보여주는 핵심어들이다. 단점도 있지만 코지 미스터리의 소소한 재미를 좋아하는 독자에게는 읽을 만한 책이다.