Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 2013)

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From the rough but colorful pub that provides the book's title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere -- or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas.

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.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 2004)

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Bad tidings come to Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant...
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.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 1990)

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"SHE IS WORKING IN THE GREAT TRADITION... GOOD NEWS FOR ADDICTS - CRIME WITH STYLE." -- Mary Cantwell, Vogue
A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury -- until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm, and a bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging holiday spirit. But the next time Jury saw her, she was cold -- and dead.

Melrose Plant. Jury's aristocratic sidekick wasn't faring much better. Snow bound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics, and idle-but-titled rich, he, too, encountered a lovely lady... or rather, stumbled over her corpse. What linked these two yuletide murders was a remote country pub where snooker, a Nativity scene, and an old secret would uncover a killer... or yet another death.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn. Dell, ISBN: 0440141818 (November, 1990), 270 p., $4.95.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 1988)

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"THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIE, ALLINGHAM, AND SAYERS LIVES ON..." Los Angeles Times
A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury -- until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm, and a bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging holiday spirit. But the next time Jury saw her, she was cold -- and dead.

Melrose Plant. Jury's aristocratic sidekick wasn't faring much better. Snow bound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics, and idle-but-titled rich, he, too, encountered a lovely lady... or rather, stumbled over her corpse. What linked these two yuletide murders was a remote country pub where snooker, a Nativity scene, and an old secret would uncover a killer... or yet another death.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn. Dell, ISBN: 0440141818 (September, 1988), 270 p., $4.50.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
"THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIE, ALLINGHAM, AND SAYERS LIVES ON..." Los Angeles Times
A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury -- until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm, and a bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging holiday spirit. But the next time Jury saw her, she was cold -- and dead.

Melrose Plant. Jury's aristocratic sidekick wasn't faring much better. Snow bound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics, and idle-but-titled rich, he, too, encountered a lovely lady... or rather, stumbled over her corpse. What linked these two yuletide murders was a remote country pub where snooker, a Nativity scene, and an old secret would uncover a killer... or yet another death.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn. Dell, ISBN: 0440141818 (November, 1985), 270 p., $3.50.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Martha Grimes and Richard Jury are the most talked about mystery duo of the 1980s. All who love the classic British novel of detection, all who delight in Grimes' sly wit and exquisitely drawn characters, all who have fallen for the irresistible Jury, Superintendent, Scotland Yard, will revel in the fith and richest Jury adventure to date:

Jerusalem Inn
From the rough but colorful pub that provides the book's title to the snowbound Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere -- or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas.

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 day's before Christmas: Melrose Plant, Jury' aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets: Lady Assington ("underneath her expensive gown there was a typist trying to get out"), Beatrice Sleight, a genre writer whose hait combs gave that tumbled look of one just preparing for bed ("Melrose imagined she usually was"); the tall, brooding type, the painter Edward Parmenger, who "put Melrose in mind of Heathcliff." When they all assemble in the dining room, oak paneled and and candlelit with mullioned windows of rose and amethyst glass, Lady Assington announces, "I think we should have murder".

Two days before Christmas: Jury meets Plant at Jerusalem Inn. What, each would like to know, is the other one doing there?
One day before Christmas: Jury meets a murderer -- and metes out justice.

In five days, Richard Jury meets a lifetime of eccentric characters, mystery, comedy, and ill fated attachments. For five days, Martha Grimes keeps us shivering, chuckling, gasping and, most of all, guessing. They are an incomparable pair -- classics, yes, but also originals.

Martha Grimes: Jerusalem Inn. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN: 0316328790 (November, 1984), 299 p., $15.95.