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The Case Has Altered (1997)

por Martha Grimes

Series: Richard Jury (14)

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The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly against dimishment. This is a landscape that can easily deceive, the fens, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as if to say, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as to say, You're on your own, mateâ??much like the habitues of the only pub for miles around called The Case Has Altered.
The Lincolnshire fens are the right setting for Richard Jury's latest case, a mystifying double murder. The body of one woman is found on the wash; another woman lies floating in a canal in Windy Fen. Both women are connected with Fengate: Dorcas Reese, a servant; Verna Dunn, the louche ex-wife of the owner, Max Owen, a man with a passion for antiques. So when the principal suspect turns out to be Jenny Kennington, a woman Jury has long loved, he decides he needs someone inside Fengate, someone who can impersonate an antiques expert...
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One of my more favored of the Richard Jurys . . . While he still has some sort of complicated connection to a woman who (choose one: is involved with/a witness to/guilty of) the crime (and his angst can be so bloody boring), the story is excellent and the extra characters are for the most part, well developed and fun - even the inevitable child who has none of the irritating quirks of childhood, but is as mature as an adult, and has conversation to match (and who is thusly, quite irritating). ( )
  LeslieHolm | May 19, 2022 |
Once again, the author held my interest wondering how Jury would solve the case. ( )
  CatsandCherryPie | Oct 28, 2018 |
The real murder mystery is well done and does highlight the need for investigators to avoid preconceptions. The real courtroom work is rather good, but the courtroom drama involving Agatha's scam is positively brilliant!
Steve West deserves an award for not losing it in the funny parts! ( )
  jetangen4571 | May 11, 2018 |
Never boring, Martha Grimes delivers yet again in the Richard Jury series. This time Superintendent Jury is helping out a friend, Jenny Kennington who is accused of murder. Only problem is, Jenny isn't talking and all the evidence points to her as the assailant when her cousin, Verna Dunn is shot through the heart. Two weeks later, an unnoticeable kitchen maid, Dorcas Reese is garroted out on the fens. What is the motivation for these killings? Why isn't Jenny talking? Why does Richard care so much? And what's up with Agatha suing Ada Crisp in Long Piddlington? Marshall Trueblood moves out of his comfort zone as an antiques dealer to represent Ada in defense of Lady Ardry.

Some humor, some sorrow, and another engaging child creates yet another Richard Jury novel that delivers. ( )
  phoenixcomet | Feb 1, 2018 |
Slow plotline, slow pace. Grey and wet. Much like the geography of the scenery. This one can not, I think, be read as a stand alone. Too many threads are linked to other books. Jenny Kensington, Jury not smoking, Melrose's obsession with his new neighour. The mystery is one of perception and once the reader is clued in, it's really not a mystery. The 'tour de force' Grimes did is to make the reader not see it at first.

Not unhappy to have read it but its an in-between book. ( )
  writerlibrarian | Feb 2, 2014 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly against dimishment. This is a landscape that can easily deceive, the fens, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as if to say, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as to say, You're on your own, mateâ??much like the habitues of the only pub for miles around called The Case Has Altered.
The Lincolnshire fens are the right setting for Richard Jury's latest case, a mystifying double murder. The body of one woman is found on the wash; another woman lies floating in a canal in Windy Fen. Both women are connected with Fengate: Dorcas Reese, a servant; Verna Dunn, the louche ex-wife of the owner, Max Owen, a man with a passion for antiques. So when the principal suspect turns out to be Jenny Kennington, a woman Jury has long loved, he decides he needs someone inside Fengate, someone who can impersonate an antiques expert...

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