La novelista norteamericana Martha Grimes es una verdadera revelaci?n. Ha sido aclamada por la cr?tica por su habilidad para recrear en sus novelas el clima ingl?s con que supieron deleitar a sus lectores Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham o Ngaio Marsh.En las t?picas posadas de un lejano pueblo ocurren dos cr?menes dif?ciles de entender, con autor o autores m?s dif?ciles de descubrir. Los sospechosos abundan, sin embargo. El vicario, un conde y su rid?cula t?a americana, un funcionario retirado o su aburrida esposa, un escritor de misterio de dudosa reputaci?n, y su sensual "secretaria", el pulcro propietario de una de las posadas, un anticuario, una encantadora poetisa… El inspector Richard Jury, afable y pragm?tico, logra develar el misterio de las dos muertes pero no puede evitar una tercera. Las posadas malditas es una verdadera obra maestra de ingenio y de suspenso.
The inimitable Richard Jury returns in a thrilling tale of mystery, madness, and mistaken identityThree months have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt- ridden after his lover's tragic auto accident, and he is now more wary than ever. He is deeply suspicious when requested on a case far out of his jurisdiction in an outlying village where a young woman has been murdered behind the local pub. The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.Identifying the girl becomes ...
Chief Inspector Michael Haggerty asks Richard Jury to prove brewing magnate Oliver Tynedale's granddaughter is an impostor. Excavation of Tynedale's bombed London pub, the Blue Last, has turned up two skeletons – was the child found his real granddaughter? Meanwhile Melrose Plant reluctantly poses as an under gardener to investigate the nanny who purportedly saved the baby's life.
The Barnes Noble ReviewThe 18th novel in Martha Grimes's popular Richard Jury series finds the author extending her range, echoing the work of two other masters of mystery – osephine Tey and Dick Francis – while skewering British society with a droll, rapier wit.The fun starts with Jury lying in a hospital bed, recuperating from the bullet wound he received at the end of The Blue Last. In a scene reminiscent of Tey's classic hospital bed mystery, The Daughter of Time, a bored, frustrated Jury is overjoyed when his assistant, Melrose Plant, arrives with a proffered mystery. ...
Five years ago in Cornwall, two children disappeared from their beds and were found mysteriously drowned. When a woman is murdered nearby, the police look for a connection between the deaths.
Taking a winter break in the Yorkshire moors and staying at The Old Silent Inn, Superintendent Richard Jury witnesses a most perplexing murder. Fascinated by the lovely widow of the victim, Jury is sufficiently intrigued to undertake his own unofficial and very unpopular investigation.
