The Five Bells and Bladebone
Martha Grimes

Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury learns that a policeman’s work is never done when his holiday is cut short—by murder…

Jury has yet to finish his first pint in the village of Long Piddleton when he finds a corpse inside a beautiful rosewood desk recently acquired by the local antiques dealer, Marshall Trueblood. The body belongs to Simon Lean, a notorious philanderer. And endless list of suspects leads Jury and his aristocratic sidekick, Melrose Plant, to the nearby country estate where Lean’s long- suffering wife resides. But Jury’s best blue comes in London at a pub called the Five Bells and Bladebone. There he learns about Lean’s liaison with a disreputable woman named Sadie, who could have helped solve the case…if she wasn’t already dead.

Onyx, June 2002
ISBN #0451410386
336 pages Paperback (reprint)
$6.99

Also by Martha Grimes:
The Black Cat, February 2011
Dakota, February 2009
Dust, December 2007
The Man With a Load of Mischief, September 2007
The Old Wine Shades, March 2007
Belle Ruin, September 2006
The Old Silent, August 2006
The Old Contemptibles, April 2006
The Winds Of Change, November 2005
The Deer Leap, June 2005
Help The Poor Struggler, February 2005
Jerusalem Inn, November 2004
Foul Matter, September 2004
The Dirty Duck, June 2004
The Anodyne Necklace, January 2004
The Grave Maurice, September 2003
The Old Fox Deceiv'd, June 2003
The Man With a Load of Mischief, February 2003
The Blue Last, September 2002
Cold Flat Junction, February 2002
I Am the Only Running Footman, October 2001
The Train Now Departing: Two Novellas, June 2001
The Lamorna Wink, September 2000
Biting the Moon, March 2000
The Stargazey, October 1999
The Case Has Altered, November 1998

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