Search - The Deer Leap (Richard Jury)

Jury & Plant are at it again! This time, a body, dead, of course, falls onto Polly Prad when she opens the door of a telephone booth in the driving rain. The mystery continues to evolve as 1 cat and two dogs are previously killed, and a child with amnesia, now 15 was found wandering in the forest and is taken over by a Baroness who gets drunk regularly. Are these related? Well, yes, . . . and No. And don't forget the Deer Leap - the inn/pub where people are. All this in sort of modern day British Isles.

Polly Praed's visit to Ashdown Dean lands her in the police station, where she is questioned about a corpse that fell out of a phone booth at her feet.

Polly Praed's visit to Ashdown Dean lands her in the police station, where she is questioned about a corpse that fell out of a phone booth at her feet. Now Polly's calling for Melrose Plant and Richard Jury to help her deal with the local authorities. And as long as they're in town, perhaps the detecting duo can find her missing cat, one of several pets recently gone missing in Ashdown Dean. For Plant and Jury, it doesn't take a leap in logic to suspect the animal-testing laboratory at the edge of town. But it does take a local pub called the Deer Leap to lead them to a chilling old crime - and a brand-new way to die.... (from back cover)