The Man with a Load of Mischief

Martha Grimes

Mar 2013 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

From bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series.

Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack and Hammer.

Suddenly Long Piddleton had good reason to be wary of everyone! Its cozy pubs and inns with their polished pewter and blazing hearths had become scenes of the most bizarre crimes. Who were the victims? And who was the murderer? A stranger? A maniac? Or the disarmingly friendly man next door?

Ratings and reviews

A delightful little tale of murder in a sleepy little English village. I've read several of the Jury books, but never this first one. It was fun getting to know these characters again as they were introduced by Grimes. Melrose is my favorite, but Jury and Wiggins are wonderful as well. Agatha is just an annoying old woman, but I love how Melrose deals with her. Jury had always come across as a rather melancholy character to me, but not in this book. The story flowed well and it was quite easy to keep the various characters separate. The eBook was formatted well with no obvious spelling/grammatical errors.

Now I have finished all Jury novels. Only one missing, the old wines shades...which I cannot find in electronic format :(

First time reader of Ms. Grimes. Superb writer, as reflected in this first in a series of Inspector Jury encounters. Can't wait to get on with the next one, and the following one....

About the author

Bestselling author Martha Grimes is the author of more than thirty books, including twenty-two Richard Jury mysteries. She is also the author of Double Double, a dual memoir of alcoholism written with her son. The winner of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.