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The Old Contemptibles (Richard Jury, Bk 11)
The Old Contemptibles - Richard Jury, Bk 11
Author: Martha Grimes
When Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn into a brief affair with a troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth, her subsequent death makes him a suspect in her murder. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets. Plant does ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780345374561
ISBN-10: 0345374568
Publication Date: 1/22/1992
Pages: 304
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 64 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Hardcover. One of Grimes earlier books helps explain and further the relationships between Melrose Plant Richard Jury and other hcaracters in her books. Very Good,
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Many consider this one Martha Grimes at the top of her form. Great English mystery but without all the stuffiness.
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 AZmee avatar reviewed The Old Contemptibles (Richard Jury, Bk 11) on + 65 more book reviews
my review is a set od these books...each is a a mystery to solve and what ties them all to read is the same characters do all t he solving and they are not all detectives.

Great humor and chracters

I sincerely enjoyed the whole series of these books. Light mysteries but no gore. Each book is named after a particular pub in england and you have fun discovering the different characters that inhabit these pubs.
Spuddie avatar reviewed The Old Contemptibles (Richard Jury, Bk 11) on + 412 more book reviews
#11 in the Richard Jury/Melrose Plant series, in which a woman Jury has been dating is found dead--at first believed a suicide, but upon further investigation, it's found that there were a few people with motive to see her dead. Jury is suspended and even a suspect for a while, and he enlists his friend Melrose Plant to go undercover at the country manor home of the dead woman's in-laws as a librarian and to keep his ears to the ground for vital information. Grimes was back on track with this entry in the series after the previous effort (The Old Silent) which was quite bloated and convoluted. I enjoyed this one a lot and it was good to see Plant and Jury back in form.
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English mystery with Richard Jury
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It took me several tries, but was finally able to get into it. Never would have guessed the ending in a million years.
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After a bit of a slow start, the story's atmosphere kept me going and guessing. Great ending.


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