Jerusalem Inn
Martha Grimes
Little, Brown (1984)
In Collection
#238
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Mystery Fiction
Jury, Richard (Fictitious Character), Police/ England/ Fiction, Christmas/ Fiction
Hardcover 9780316328791
English
From the rough but colorful pub that provides the book’s title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere-or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas.

Five Days Before Christmas – On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury meets a woman he could fall in love with. He meets her in a snow covered graveyard-not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attahcment.

Four Days Before Christmas – Jury meets Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square-“a structure that might simplify thought,” says the priest, but Jury’s thoughts need more than symbols.

Three Days Before Christmas – Melrose Plant, Jury’s aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets: Lady Assington, Beatrice Sleight, and the painter Edward Parmenger. When they all assemble in the dining room, Lady Assington announces, “I think we should have a murder.”
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3557.R48998 .J4 1984
LoC Control Number 84015495
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $15.95
No. of Pages 299
Height x Width 8.7 x 5.7  inch
Personal Details
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