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      The Five Bells and Bladebone

      by Martha Grimes
      Published
      Mar 1987
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
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      384
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      Series
      A Richard Jury Novel Book 9

      About This Book

      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.

      Series Placement

      Book 9
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Suspense

      Subgenres

      Law Enforcement Police Procedural

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      Sep 1988 Dell ISBN13 9780440201335 ISBN10 0440201330
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      Jun 2002 Onyx ISBN13 9780451410382 ISBN10 0451410386
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      First Edition Mar 1987 Little, Brown ISBN13 9780316328890 ISBN10 0316328898
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      May 2013 Scribner ISBN13 9781476732930 ISBN10 1476732930
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      May 2013 Scribner ISBN10 B00BW4OMZC
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      Nov 2013 Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN10 B00FRR7UAO
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      Feb 1988 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780896211254 ISBN10 0896211258
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      Oct 1988 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780896212046 ISBN10 0896212041
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