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    The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
    The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
    The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
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    The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery

    Written by Martha Grimes

    Narrated by Steve West

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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, mate–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…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9781442363236
    The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
    Author

    Martha Grimes

    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.

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    • 5/5
      An excellent mystery kept me guessing until finally telling me who done it
    • 4/5
      By my repeating the last chapters one is aware that I was having difficulty getting the end of the novel unraveled. My dear author perhaps had the decanter toooo close at hand; or perhaps it was me! Mia
    • 4/5
      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).
    • 4/5
      Once again, the author held my interest wondering how Jury would solve the case.
    • 5/5
      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!
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      Number 14 in the Richard Jury series.The Lincolnshire fens are the scene of two murders within two weeks. Lady Jenny Kensington, in whom Jury has had a semi-romantic but unexpressed interest for nearly 10 years, is the chief suspect. Jury, much to the resentment of the local constabulary, insinuates himself into the investigation although on an unofficial basis in an attempt to clear Jenny of the charges. The case is puzzling, since no one doubts that there is just one murderer but the connection between the two victims is remote.As usual, Jury enlists the aid of that undercover agent par excellence, Melrose Plant. This time Plant poses as an amateur antiques appraiser to gain access to and the confidence of the people in whose house Jenny and one of the victims were guests and who employed the second as kitchen help. Melrose, who knows next to nothing about antiques, takes a crash course from Marshall Trueblood; in true Plant fashion, he picks up a weird little book about antique scams which, if not helpful in identification, certainly provides enlightenment and amusement about the many ways to fleece suckers in the antiques trade.Of course there is the requisite appearance of a precocious pre-teen; this wouldn’t be a Richard Jury book without one. Although Zell plays a minor role in solving the mystery, she is yet another of Grimes’ young chefs-in-the making.Also making a recurring appearance is Pete Apsted, Queen’s counselor, in a dandy little courtroom scene in which a play on words is a crucial element in Jenny’s trial for the double murder.Long Piddleton, however, is well represented in this installment. There are new tenants at Watermeadows, the estate adjoining that of Plant’s Ardry End. Small towns all over the world being what they are, Melrose and the regulars at the Jack and Hammer are agog to find out who the new occupants are; they have had a bizarre sort of pool going to see who can come closest to the makeup of the new family. Melrose actually meets one of them—who turns out to be nothing like the weekenders that the town had been expecting, and who provides Melrose with a romantic interest.That, however, is not the only contribution Long Piddleton has to make to this excellent book. We are treated to yet a different trial, one that could not be more opposite in character from the one that took place in the fen country. Lady Agatha, with the connivance and collaboration of the wretched Theo Wrenn Browne, is suing Miss Ada Crisp over the perils of Miss Crisp’s second-hand shop in Long Piddleton; in an accident reminiscent of Charlie Chan, Agatha has “sprained” her ankle by putting her foot in one of Miss Crisp’s 2nd hand chamber pots and claims she was attacked by Miss Crisp’s Jack Russell terrier. Marshall Trueblood rises to the occasion and represents Miss Crisp in a trial that is a hilarious and fitting climax to the book.Highly recommended.