The man with a load of mischief

263 pages

English language

Published May 19, 1981 by Little, Brown.

ISBN:
978-0-316-32880-7
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Inspector Richard Jury mysteries #1

The quaint, many-hued cottages lining Long Piddleton's High Street were capped with new snow and glittering in the morning sunshine. Pretty enough to be a Christmas card, the hamlet was, instead, the scene of two singularly gruesome murders. Martha Grimes's delightfully British novel of detection introduces Inspector Richard Jury, an affable, pragmatic investigator who has a winning way of ignoring protocol and playing his own canny game. Jury is dispatched to the quiet Northants village of Long Piddleton at Christmastime to help solve a spate of murders that have confounded the local constabulary.

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  • Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Police -- England -- Fiction

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