Bibliograph

The Old Wine Shades, a Richard Jury mystery, Martha Grimes

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The Old Wine Shades, a Richard Jury mystery, Martha Grimes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Old Wine Shades

Oclc number

63280342

Responsibility statement

Martha Grimes

Series statement

Richard Jury mystery, 20

Sub title

a Richard Jury mystery

Summary

"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't...So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey. They've been missing for nine months-no trace, no clue, no lead as to what happenedHe's a fascinating bloke, this Harry Johnson-rich, handsome, unattached, and brainy about the esoteric subject of quantum mechanics, a field in which the vanished woman's husband, Hugh Gault, excels. Jury wonders, is Harry Johnson winding him up? Or did it really happen? The dog did come back-but how? And from where? And when Jury investigates, all seems to be just as Harry described it. Until they find the body

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