Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury #5)
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- Synopsis
- Martha Grimes and Richard Jury are the most talked about mystery duo of the 1980s. All who love the classic British novel of detection, all who delight in Grimes's sly wit and exquisitely drawn characters, all who have fallen for the irresistible Jury, Superintendent, Scotland Yard, will revel in the fifth and, richest Jury adventure to date: Jensalem Inn From the rough but colorful pub that provides the book's tide, to the snowbound Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere -- or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas. Ftvedays beforeChristmag. On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks), Jury meets a woman he could fail in love with. He meets her in a snow-cov.ered graveyard-- not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attachment. Four days before Chr/$tmas: Jury meets Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square -- "a structure that might simplify thought," says the priest, but Jury's thoughts need more than symbols. Three days before Chr/$tma.g-Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets: Iady Assington ("underneath her expensive gown there was a typist trying to get out"); Beatrice Sleight, a genre writer v/nose hair combs gave that tumbled look of one just preparing for bed ("Melrose imagined she usually was"); the tall, brooding type, the painter Edward Parmenger, who "put Melrose in mind of Heathcliff." When they all assemble in the dining room, oak paneled and candlelit with mullioned windows of rose and amethyst #ass, Lady Assington'announces, "I think we should have a murder." Two days before Chr/stma.g-Jury meets Plant at Jerusalem Inn. What, each would like to know, is the other one doing there?
- Copyright:
- 1994
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 293 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781476732879
- Publisher:
- Scribner
- Date of Addition:
- 08/21/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Martha Grimes
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Animals, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.