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THE STARGAZEY: A Richard Jury Mystery.
by Grimes, Martha
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 080505622X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805056228
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1998. 1st edition. aso stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. "Grimes' popular Richard Jury returns in top form. A dead woman found at London's Fulham Palace is a dead ringer for a mysterious passenger who boarded the same bus Jury did just a few days earlier. Jury's only lead to the victim's identity is the fur coat she was wearing. The coat, which once belonged to an aging film star, was passed along to a family of Russian immigrants who own a posh art gallery. Jury asks his friend, art collector Melrose Plant, to investigate the connection between the coat, the art gallery, and the dead woman. Then another deadly clue turns up when a retired art critic with links to the gallery is murdered. Jury and Plant finally unravel the myriad bits of evidence and uncover an art-theft ring, unmask a professional assassin, and prove--sadly and yet again--that hatred, greed, and anger remain in plentiful supply and continue to drive much of human behavior. Grimes' latest delivers a delightfully entertaining blend of irony, danger, and intrigue, liberally laced with wit and charm...." -- Booklist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
Synopsis
After a luminous blonde leaves, reboards, then leaves the double-decker bus Richard Jury is on, he follows her to the gates of Fulham Palace...and goes no further. Days later, when he hears of the death in the palace's walled garden, Jury will wonder if he could have averted it. But is the victim the same woman Jury saw? As he and Melrose Plant follow the complex case from the Crippsian depths of London's East End to the headier heights of Mayfair's art scene, Jury will realize that in this captivating woman--dead or alive--he may have finally met his match...
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016445
- Title
- THE STARGAZEY: A Richard Jury Mystery.
- Author
- Grimes, Martha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 080505622X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805056228
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- ENGLAND FICTION JURY RICHARD FICTITIOUS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Police Procedural; British Mystery;
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