The Deer Leap

Martha Grimes

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781476732893
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

In her latest Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes us to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While the puzzling deaths of village pets may raise some idle gossip over a pint or two at the Deer Leap, the village pub, this hardly seems a case for Superintendent Jury of Scotland yard. Nor does it seem much of a challenge for the combined deductive powers of Jury and Melrose, the affable former Earl of Caverness.It is his mystery-writing, amethyst-eyed friend, Polly Praed, who drags Plant and Jury to Ashdown Dean. The impatient Polly, having yanked open a call box in the pouring rain, is ill-prepared for what lands at her feet. The now-deadly case is cause for calling in Scotland Yard.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Part I: Good Night! Which put the Candle out?
• Part II: What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar traveler comes?
• Part III: Children — swindled for the first All Swindlers — be — infer —
• Part IV: You — too — take Cobweb attitudes
• Part V: Now it is Night — in Nest and Kennel —
• Part VI: An Amethyst Remembrance Is all I own
• "Vertigo 42" Excerpt
• Copyright