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Martha Grimes

The Old Success


2019. 256 S. 234 mm
Verlag/Jahr: ATLANTIC BOOKS; GROVE PRESS 2019
ISBN: 1-61185-475-X (161185475X)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-61185-475-6 (9781611854756)

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In The Old Success, the twenty-fifth mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series by crime writing legend Martha Grimes, an unlikely trio of detectives teams up to solve three puzzling murders on the coast of Cornwall.
When the body of a Frenchwoman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police, is called in. With the only visible footprints belonging to the two girls who found her, who could have killed this mysterious tourist?

While Macalvie stands stumped in the Isles of Scilly, Inspector Richard Jury - twenty miles away on Land´s End - is at the Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook. Except one.

In the weeks following the unexplained death of the tourist, two other murders are called in to Macalvie and Jury´s teams: first, a man is found dead on a Northamptonshire estate, then a cleaner turns up murdered at Exeter Cathedral. When Macalvie and Jury decide to consult Brownell, the retired detective insists that the three murders, though very different in execution, are connected. As the trio set out to solve this puzzle, Jury and Macalvie hope that this doesn´t turn out to be Brownell´s second ever miss.

Written with Grimes´s signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, The Old Success is prime fare from ´one of the most fascinating mystery writers today´ (Houston Chronicle).
Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, twenty-four of them featuring Richard Jury. The recipient of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America´s Grand Master Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.