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This fourth Richard Jury novel finds the Superintendent in Stratford, investigating a murder in a popular pub where the killer has left behind a cryptic fragment of Elizabethan verse. Reissue.
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21 primary booksRichard Jury is a 21-book series with 21 primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by Martha Grimes.
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A good addition to the series. I liked the bits about Elizabethan writers and the tours around Stratford and London. The mystery itself was okay, not particularly intriguing or challenging. Another high body count, which I am not generally a fan of, especially since most of the murders felt pointless in the end. But good writing, which keeps me reading this series. People seem to mistakenly believe that this series is “cozy” (rather than “police procedural” or just plain “mystery”) and therefore it won't have any rough edges to it. It does. This doesn't bother me at all, though.