Personals Subscribe to paper Send a Postcard Service Desk Contact Us Grimes' mystery 'Case' worth cracking The Case Has Altered. By Martha Grimes. Now Martha Grimes has claimed the fens as a setting for her 13th book featuring Superintendent Richard Jury, just as successfully as this American author has claimed the Scotland Yard detective story as her own special territory.
Bodies turn up on the boggy marshland.
Just two weeks after actress Verna Dunn, a guest at Fengate, is discovered shot to death, Dorcas Reese, a kitchen worker at the mansion, is found strangled. To Jury's horror, the prime suspect in both deaths is the woman he considers his lady love, Jennifer Kennington. As always, visiting with the regulars is one of the delights of a Grimes mystery, as enjoyableas determining what hints are provided by the name of the pub which provides the title for her latest book. Has Altered figures in the action of the plot and also gives this work its name. Naturally, Jury is accompanied by Sgt.