Name: Jerusalem Inn

Author: Martha Grimes
Year: 1984
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9780451411617
0451411617
From the rough but colorful pub that provides the book'€™s title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere'€”or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas. Five Days Before Christmas: On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury meets a woman he could fall in love with. He meets her in a snow-covered graveyard'€”not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attachment. Four Days Before Christmas: Jury meets Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square'€”'€œa structure that might simplify thought,'€ says the priest, but Jury'€™s thoughts need more than symbols. Three Days Before Christmas: Melrose Plant, Jury'€™s aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets'€”Lady Assington, Beatrice Sleight, and the painter Edward Parmenger. When they all assemble in the dining room, Lady Assington announces, '€œI think we should have a murder.'€
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