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The old contemptibles / 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 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....
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- ISBN: 0316328944
- ISBN: 9780316328944
- Physical Description: 333 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, c1990.
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| Subject: | Jury, Richard (Fictitious character). Police > England > London > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Mystery fiction. |
Summary:
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....
