I love Martha Grimes. Richard Jury and Melrose Plant are two of my most favorite characters. I thought I had read this one, but it doesn't sound familiar. So, I guess I'll just have to add it to the TBR pile!

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
When Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn into a brief affair with a troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth, her subsequent death makes him a suspect in her murder. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets. Plant does what he is bidden, in his own particular style, and what he uncovers is a shocking sheaf of surprises about the death-prone Holdsworth clan and its growing number of orphans....

Okay, I started to read this and it appears that I have read it before. I didn't remember the very beginning, but when it got down to the crime, I remember what's going on. I don't remember how it ends, so I may peruse the last couple of chapters, but I'm not going to re-read the whole thing.

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Sending this out to calicocollie!!

Okay, due to some delays, it didn't actually make it into the mail until 3/21/05. Hope you enjoy it!!

Thank you so much! Your bookring got me started on Martha Grimes and now I can't stop :)

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