The Case Has Altered
A Richard Jury Mystery
by Martha Grimes
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9780451408686,
Paperback,
Onyx Books,
1998
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9780671577568,
Audio Cassette,
Simon & Schuster,
1997
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9780805056204,
Hardcover,
Henry Holt & Co,
1997
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Publisher Notes
"The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly against diminishment." This is a landscape that can easily deceive, the fens, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as if to say, 'You're on your own, mate'. Much like the habitues of the only pub for miles around called The Case Has Altered. The Lincolnshire fens are the right setting for Richard Jury's latest case, a mystifying double murder. The body of one woman is found on the wash; another woman lies floating in as canal in Windy Fen. Both women are connected with Fengate: Dorcas Reese, a servant; Verna Dunn, the louche ex-wife of the owner, Max Owen, a man with a passion for antiques. So when the principal suspect turns out to be Jenny Kennington, a woman Jury has long loved, he decides he needs someone inside Fengate, someone who can impersonate an antiques expert. Enter: Melrose Plant, detective manque. And in his wake follows the cast of characters that Martha Grimes's fans have come to love in this affecting story that is by turns crushingly sad and wonderfully funny.
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"Even the farcical subplot--that nuisance lawsuit back home--adds its counterweight to the Fen Country gloom to produce Grimes's best book in years."
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