num_pages: 272
description: At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out on the beam of the pub’s sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury arrives in Long Piddleton and finds everyone in the postcard village looking outside of town for the killer. Except for one Melrose Plant. A keen observer of human nature, he points Jury in the right direction: into the darkest parts of his neighbors’ hearts…
language: English
title: The Man With a Load of Mischief
titlecomplete: The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)
characters: Richard Jury, Oliver Darrington, Vivian Rivington, Marshall Trueblood, Isabel Rivington, Melrose Plant, Lorraine Bicester-Strachan, Simon Matchett, Sheila Hogg
genres: Audiobook, Cozy Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction, Christmas
ratings_count: 18429
series: Richard Jury 
publisher: Berkley Books