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Book Review of Help the Poor Struggler (Richard Jury, Bk 7)

Help the Poor Struggler (Richard Jury, Bk 7)
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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)