[Richard Jury 07] - Help the Poor Struggler
✍ Scribed by Martha Grimes
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1476732884
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✦ Synopsis
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalviewith clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.
Review
"A superior writer." --*The New York Times Book Review*
"A star in the mystery genre...An elegant writer and inventor of dazzling plots." --*Publishers Weekly*
From the Publisher
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer.
The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and an ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalvie...with clues that link a murder in the distant pass with a killing yet to come.
"A superior writer." --*The New York Times Book Review*
"A star in the mystery genre...An elegant writer and inventor of dazzling plots." --*Publishers Weekly*