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Collection: Adult Mystery
Call Number: M
Author: Grimes, Martha
Title: The Old Success
Remainder of title: a Richard Jury mystery
Summary, etc. note: "When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End-is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook. Except one. In the days following the mysterious slaying of the Parisian tourist, two other murders take place: first, a man is shot at a country estate, then a holy duster turns up murdered in Exeter Cathedral. Macalvie, Jury, and Brownell set out to discover whether these three killings, though very different in execution, are connected"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780802147400
: (hardcover)
: (ebook)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780802147417
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: e-uk-en
Classification number: PS3557.R48998
Item number: O443 2019
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Martha Grimes.
Edition statement: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date of publication: 2019
Projected publication date: 1912
: New York :
: Atlantic Monthly Press,
: 2019.
Extent: 243 pages
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
Series statement: A Richard Jury mystery
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 12/13/19
Purchase price: 26.00
Subject: Jury, Richard (Fictitious character)
Subject: Police
Subject: Thriller
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Geographic subdivision: England
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Mystery fiction.
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: 1 shelf copy
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