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Help the Poor Struggler (Richard Jury, Bk 7)
Help the Poor Struggler - Richard Jury, Bk 7 Author:Martha Grimes Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. — The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady ... more »Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and an ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice retums to haunt Macalvie...with clues that link a murder in the distant pass with a killing yet to come.« less
The forbidding landscape of Dartmoor seems the perfect setting for murder. But even the hardy locals are shocked when three children are killed. Jury joins forces with Brian Macalvie, a hot-tempered chief superintendent who believes the killings stem from an old injustice that he wishes to right. Their investigation, which starts at a desolate pub called Help the Poor Struggler, leads them to the estate of a ten-year-old orphaned heiress - and into the murky truths linking the past with a slaying yet to come.... (from back cover)