Help the Poor Struggler

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Casa editrice

Scribner

Pubblicato

2013

Lingua

English

Pagine

256

Info

256 Pagine

ISBN

978-1-4767-3288-6

Hauptbeschreibung

Book seven of the suspenseful Richard Jury Mystery series!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 Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalviewith clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.

Kurztext / Annotation

Book seven of the suspenseful Richard Jury Mystery series!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 Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalviewith clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.