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The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes

The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes

      
Antiques dealer Marshall Trueblood had finally haggled the owner of Watermeadows--a lush country estate near the little village of Long Piddleton--into parting with a beautiful rosewood desk. He hadn't bargained on the corpse stuffed inside.

The body belonged to the notorious philanderer Simon Lean. Richard Jury of Scotland Yard and his aristocratic sidekick, Melrose Plant, had no end of suspects. But Jury's best clue led to a London pub, the five Bells and Bladebone. There he would learn about Lean's liaison with a shady lady named Sadie, who might help solve the case--if she wasn't murdered first.

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0451410386
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recent publishing history

Paperback

Sep-1988

Dell

ISBN: 0440201330

ISBN13: 9780440201335


Mass Market Paperback

Jun-2002

Onyx

ISBN: 0451410386

ISBN13: 9780451410382

First Edition

Hardcover

Mar-1987

Little, Brown

ISBN: 0316328898

ISBN13: 9780316328890

eBook (Kindle)

May-2013

Scribner


eBook

May-2013

Scribner

ISBN: 1476732930

ISBN13: 9781476732930

Hardcover

Feb-1988

Thorndike Press

Large Print

ISBN: 0896211258

ISBN13: 9780896211254


Trade Paperback

Oct-1988

Thorndike Press

Large Print

ISBN: 0896212041

ISBN13: 9780896212046

 

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published

Mar-1987 (hardcover)

Sep-1988 (paperback)

author series

A Richard Jury Novel - 9

time period

Contemporary

genres

Suspense

sub-genres

Police / Detective / FBI / Law Enforcement