Dust
Subtitle: a Richard Jury mystery
By: Martha Grimes
Edition: Doubleday large print home library ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9780739477748
Subjects: Large type books; Richard Jury (Fictitious character); Police; Fiction
Description: When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not sure what's more perplexing: the circumstances of the fellow's death, the conflicted stories of the man's past, or the motivations of the case's lead detective--the beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar. What Jury is sure of is that he's in over his head, both with the inscrutable and challenging Aguilar and the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic Billy Maples, last seen in a club named Dust. A web of clues draws Jury to the trendy Clerkenwell galleries, clubs, and hotels, to the dark stories behind Maples's family, and to the Sussex town of Rye, where Billy had temporarily taken up the tenancy of Lamb House, the charming home where Henry James composed his three masterworks.