Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury returns?but no before sidekick Melrose Plant finds himself embroiled in a haunting case of murder past and present.
Onyx
September 2000
432 pages ISBN: 0451409361 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
With his good friend Richard Jury on a foolβs errand in Northern Ireland, Melrose Plant triesβin vainβto escape his aunt and his Long Piddleton lethargy by fleeing to Cornwall. There, high on a rocky promontory overlooking the sea, he rents a houseβone furnished with tragic memories. But his Cornwallian reveries are tempered by the local waiter/cab driver/amateur magician. The industrious Johnny Wells seems unflappableβuntil his beloved aunt disappears. Now, Plant is dragged into the disturbing pasts of everyone involvedβand a murder mystery that only Richard Jury can solve.
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