Stephanie B. (stephanierbm) reviewed The Old Contemptibles (Richard Jury, Bk 11) on + 23 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
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,
Herbert M. (vunderbar) reviewed The Old Contemptibles (Richard Jury, Bk 11) on + 209 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Many consider this one Martha Grimes at the top of her form. Great English mystery but without all the stuffiness.
Cheryl R. (Spuddie) -
#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.
English mystery with Richard Jury
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.
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.
Catherine L. (CathyL) reviewed The Old Contemptibles (Richard Jury, Bk 11) on + 29 more book reviews
After a bit of a slow start, the story's atmosphere kept me going and guessing. Great ending.
Nicole B. (pixinator) - , reviewed The Old Contemptibles (Richard Jury, Bk 11) on + 7 more book reviews
It took me several tries, but was finally able to get into it. Never would have guessed the ending in a million years.
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 what he is bidden, in his own particular style, and what he uncovers is a shocking sheaf of surprises about the death-prone Holdsworth clan and its growing number of orphans....
This is a Mystery story I could not stay with.
Victoria M. (takomacat) -
Loved it. Classic Richard Jury.
the author keeps us enthralled with the rich interior and exterior lives of her characters in this emotionally stormy family saga
