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Dust
By Martha Grimes
One look at the title and the Dust jacket, and I'm smiling already! Martha Grimes has produced another Richard Jury mystery - just out in book stores in January of 2007.
Benny Keegan and his dog Sparky are responsible for Jury being involved in this murder. Benny, an old friend of Jury's , is thirteen years old, but passes for sixteen and is a substitute waiter for old Gilbert at the Zetter Hotel. When he delivers an order of coffee to Billy Maple's room and finds him murdered, his first call is to Jury to get him out of this predicament.
Billy Maples is a wealthy bachelor and was last seen at a trendy club named Dust . The chief officer sent by the police to investigate the crime is Lu Aguilar and she is a beauty. Jury is taken off guard - his resistance to the lady is non -existent. However, they both pursue the clues that present themselves.
Billy had been a caretaker at Lamb House in Rye, where Henry James had lived and composed three of his most important novels. It seemed a strange thing for a wealthy bachelor to do .
As the investigation progresses, we are treated to the fun part of Jury mysteries - the cast of characters that are Jury's friends and house mates and the irrepressible Melrose Plant who is conned into investigating Lamb House for Jury. Mrs. Wasserman, his landlady makes her appearance, as well as Carol-anne, the attractive young lady that has a neighboring apartment and makes it her life's business to keep track of Richard Jury's life.
Aguilar takes prime time in this case as well and Jury needs all his charm, experience and brain power to sort this one out before its too late; or is it too late for someone he has come to love and trust?
Martha Grimes and her Richard Jury novels take place in various locales in England. However, this author makes her home in Washington, D.C.
Published by: Penguin Group ( USA) Inc.
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
Copyright : © 2007 by Martha Grimes
Reviewed by: Joan G. Smith, 01/25/07
Copyright : © 2007 by Joan G. Smith
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