The Man With a Load of Mischief
Published on 9. August 2018
191 pages
978-1-61185-918-8 (ISBN)
Description
Two pubs. Two murders. One chocolate-box village convinced of its own perfection - until now.
Long Piddleton is an unlikely setting for a crime, and yet it's the scene of two. With one dead body upended in a keg of beer at The Man with a Load of Mischief, and another swinging from the sign above the Jack and Hammer, tensions are high, and Scotland Yard's Richard Jury is called in to calm the waters.
On arrival, Jury finds himself confronted by a community spooked by the idea that the murderer could be amongst them. That is, apart from Melrose Plant - the eighth Earl of Caverness and a keen observer of human nature whose astute eye directs Jury's investigation straight into the heart of the village, leaving the community questioning everything they ever thought they knew and trusted.
Long Piddleton is an unlikely setting for a crime, and yet it's the scene of two. With one dead body upended in a keg of beer at The Man with a Load of Mischief, and another swinging from the sign above the Jack and Hammer, tensions are high, and Scotland Yard's Richard Jury is called in to calm the waters.
On arrival, Jury finds himself confronted by a community spooked by the idea that the murderer could be amongst them. That is, apart from Melrose Plant - the eighth Earl of Caverness and a keen observer of human nature whose astute eye directs Jury's investigation straight into the heart of the village, leaving the community questioning everything they ever thought they knew and trusted.
Reviews / Votes
For readers who value wit, atmosphere and charm. * Washington Post Book World * Grimes captures the flavour of British village life...Long may she write Richard Jury mysteries. * Chicago Tribune * [Grimes's novel] is cast in the mould of the great British mysteries and comes complete with all the classic elements. * The San Diego Union * One of the established masters of the genre. * Newsweek (On Martha Grimes) * [Grimes's] gift for evoking mood and emotion is as keen as her talent for inventing a demanding puzzle, and solving it. * The Wall Street Journal (On Martha Grimes) * [Grimes] excels at creating a haunting atmosphere and characters both poignant and preposterous. * USA Today (On Martha Grimes) * Grimes is gifted at exploring the private, sometimes horrifying, yet utterly mundane thoughts of ordinary people. * San Francisco Chronicle (On Martha Grimes) * Read any one [of her novels] and you'll want to read them all. * Chicago Tribune (On Martha Grimes) * Grimes's love of the offbeat, the whimsical and the absurd makes [the Richard Jury series] utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels. * Washington Post (On Martha Grimes) * Grimes is not the next Dorothy Sayers, not the next Agatha Christie. She is better than both. * Atlanta Journal-Constitution (On Martha Grimes) *More details
Series
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
1,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-61185-918-8 (9781611859188)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Martha Grimes is a self-acclaimed Anglophile who has been publishing a book (and sometimes two) every year for the past twenty-five years.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Grimes earned her BA and MA from the University of Maryland. Though she is best known for her detective fiction series that features Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, Martha Grimes is the author of two further book series - the Andi Oliver series and the Emma Graham series - as well as a collection of poems, a short story and a further two novels.
In 1983, Grimes was the recipient of the Nero Wolfe Award for the best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace. In 2012, she was awarded the title of Grand Master by The Edgar Awards Mystery Writers of America.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Grimes earned her BA and MA from the University of Maryland. Though she is best known for her detective fiction series that features Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, Martha Grimes is the author of two further book series - the Andi Oliver series and the Emma Graham series - as well as a collection of poems, a short story and a further two novels.
In 1983, Grimes was the recipient of the Nero Wolfe Award for the best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace. In 2012, she was awarded the title of Grand Master by The Edgar Awards Mystery Writers of America.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
