Monday, January 31, 2022

Martha Grimes DUST review

 


Grimes, Martha.  Dust  2007

Dust is a nice throwaway mystery with Richard Jury doing most of the detecting on a murder in a hotel room. His Long Piddleton friend Melrose Plant contributes nicely without the long involvement of some of the other habitues of the town pub. There are red herrings galore and you may miss some of the allusions if (like me) you are not well enough acquainted with the works of Henry James. The hot affair between Jury and a sex obsessed fellow detective gets some period chapters and looks more like a set up for future books than something necessary to this one. 


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