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THE FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE By : Martha Grimes
Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury learns that a policeman?s work is never done when his holiday is cut short?by murder?
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Jury has yet to finish his first pint in the village of Long Piddleton when he finds a corpse inside a beautiful rosewood desk recently acquired by the local antiques dealer, Marshall Trueblood. The body belongs to Simon Lean, a notorious philanderer. And endless list of suspects leads Jury and his aristocratic sidekick, Melrose Plant, to the nearby country estate where Leanβs long- suffering wife resides. But Juryβs best blue comes in London at a pub called the Five Bells and Bladebone. There he learns about Leanβs liaison with a disreputable woman named Sadie, who could have helped solve the caseβ¦if she wasnβt already dead.
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