Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 2013) From the Publisher: Five Days Before Christmas: On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury meets a woman he could fall in love with. He meets her in a snow-covered graveyard -- not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attachment. Four Days Before Christmas: Jury meets Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square -- "a structure that might simplify thought," says the priest, but Jury's thoughts need more than symbols. Three Days Before Christmas: Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets -- Lady Assington, Beatrice Sleight, and the painter Edward Parmenger. When they all assemble in the dining room, Lady Assington announces, "I think we should have a murder." Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn. A Richard Jury Mystery. Scribner eBook, ISBN: 9781476732879 (April, 2013), 2619 KB (ca. 324 p.), $11.99.
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Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 2004) From the Publisher: The woman in the snow-covered graveyard was beautiful and sensual -- just what Richard Jury needed to warm up a dreary Newcastle Christmas. But the next time Jury saw her, she was dead. Melrose Plant didn't fare much better. Snowbound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics, and idle-but-titled rich, he, too, encountered a lovely lady -- by stumbling over her corpse. A remote country inn was all that connected the two yuletide murders -- and was where holiday cheer turned to fear... Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn. A Richard Jury Novel. Onyx Books, ISBN: 0451411617 (November, 2004), 295 p., $7.99.
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Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 1990) From the Publisher: Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn. Dell, ISBN: 0440141818 (November, 1990), 270 p., $4.99.
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