The Old Contemptibles - A Richard Jury Mystery
Martha Grimes
Little, Brown (1991)
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#239
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Mystery Fiction
Detective And Mystery Stories, Jury, Richard (Fictitious Character), Police/ England/ London/ Fiction
Hardcover 9780316328944
eng
Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in London, Jury sends his friend Melrose Plant, former Earl of Caverness, to the Holdsworth family’s Lake District home to pose as an eccentric librarian. Plant discovers that his catalogue cards contain less data on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey than they do on tantalizing questions about the Holdsworths: What happened to Crabbe Holdsworth’s first wife? What happened to his son, Graham? What happened to the cook Annie?

And what might happen to the two children, favorites of rich old Adam Holdworth, who prefers the ambience of a swank retirement home, Castle Howe, where he and the elegant Lady Cray can drive the staff crazy? Jury and Sergeant Wiggins finally join Melrose at the Old Contemptibles pub, where they arrive at a solution that Jury detests, for no matter what he does, innocence will suffer.


Product Details
LoC Classification PS3557.R48998 .O39 1991
LoC Control Number 90048647
Dewey 813/.54
Cover Price $19.95
No. of Pages 299
Height x Width 9.8 x 6.3  inch
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