Title: The Man With a Load of Mischief
Description: Inspector Richard Jury mysteries #1

The quaint, many-hued cottages lining Long Piddleton's High Street were capped with new snow and glittering in the morning sunshine. Pretty enough to be a Christmas card, the hamlet was, instead, the scene of two singularly gruesome murders.
Martha Grimes's delightfully British novel of detection introduces Inspector Richard Jury, an affable, pragmatic investigator who has a winning way of ignoring protocol and playing his own canny game. Jury is dispatched to the quiet Northants village of Long Piddleton at Christmastime to help solve a spate of murders that have confounded the local constabulary.

[From inside front cover.]
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Police, Richard Jury (Fictitious character), Large type books, England, fiction, Jury, richard (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Plant, melrose (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: England