Grimes, Martha,
The old success / Martha Grimes. - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. First edition. - 243 pages ; 24 cm. - A Richard Jury mystery .
Booklist, November 15, 2019 Kirkus Reviews, December 01, 2019 BookPage, November 01, 2019 Publishers Weekly, October 28, 2019
"When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End-is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook. Except one. In the days following the mysterious slaying of the Parisian tourist, two other murders take place: first, a man is shot at a country estate, then a holy duster turns up murdered in Exeter Cathedral. Macalvie, Jury, and Brownell set out to discover whether these three killings, though very different in execution, are connected"--
0802147402 : $26.00
2019040571
Jury, Richard (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--England--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
PS3557.R48998 / O443 2019
813/.54
The old success / Martha Grimes. - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. First edition. - 243 pages ; 24 cm. - A Richard Jury mystery .
Booklist, November 15, 2019 Kirkus Reviews, December 01, 2019 BookPage, November 01, 2019 Publishers Weekly, October 28, 2019
"When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End-is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook. Except one. In the days following the mysterious slaying of the Parisian tourist, two other murders take place: first, a man is shot at a country estate, then a holy duster turns up murdered in Exeter Cathedral. Macalvie, Jury, and Brownell set out to discover whether these three killings, though very different in execution, are connected"--
0802147402 : $26.00
2019040571
Jury, Richard (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--England--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
PS3557.R48998 / O443 2019
813/.54