The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury)

Description

Inspector Richard Jury mysteries #1 The quaint, many-hued cottages lining Long Piddleton's High Street were capped with new snow and glittering in the morning sunshine. Pretty enough to be a Christmas card, the hamlet was, instead, the scene of two singularly gruesome murders. Martha Grimes's delightfully British novel of detection introduces Inspector Richard Jury, an affable, pragmatic investigator who has a winning way of ignoring protocol and playing his own canny game. Jury is dispatched to the quiet Northants village of Long Piddleton at Christmastime to help solve a spate of murders that have confounded the local constabulary. [From inside front cover.]

First Sentence

Outside the Jack and Hammer, a dog growled.

Subjects

Other Editions

• The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury)Onyx2007-08-28
• The man with a load of mischiefLittle, Brown1981-01-01
• The man with a load of mischiefDell1983-01-01
• Inspektor Jury schläft außer HausPaperbackRowohlt Tb.1987-01-01
• The Man With a Load of MischiefHardcoverMichael O'Mara Books Ltd1990-01-01
• The Man with a Load of MischiefDell1990-12-02