β Scribed by Martha Grimes
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn, amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes to he could perform one as he drives his impossible Aunt Agatha to the Old Swan in Harrogate.
Caught up in a triple murder, Jury would go to any lengths to help Nell Healey, the lovely widow of one of the victims. But Nell Healey remains silent as the Yorkshire moors, quiet as the grave, while the scope of the mystery widens.
"In Inspector Richard Jury's 10th appearance, the rewards of Grimes's skewering eye for characterization more than make up for the few occasions when the complicated plot gets out of hand." Jury, perversely winter-vacationing in Yorkshire, witnesses a murder. PW called this "another tour de force for Grimes."
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Perfect, distilled Grimesan engrossing tale.**New York Daily News**
As fine as anything Ms. Grimes has written.**The New York Times Book Review**
Another tour de force for Grimes.**Publishers Weekly**
She writes, as always, with charm, authority, and ironic wita class act.**Kirkus Reviews**
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