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The Old Contemptibles
A Richard Jury Mystery
Martha Grimes
ISBN: 0451412133
Mass Market Paperback, 384pp
Publication Date: April 2006
Publisher: Onyx Books
List Price: $7.99
Synposis (from the publisher): 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....
Additional Notes:
11th Richard Jury mystery named after English pubs.
Hardcover: Little, Brown 0316328944 (January 1991).
