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my favourite jury novel, Fév 18 2004
If you're a fan of previous Jury novels, you are going to love the Stargazey! the Creme de la Creme of the series show up and add the eccentric delight we all crave of Grimes: Vivian, Diane Demorney, Marshall Trueblood, Agatha... they're all back and in fine Long Piddletonian form.
The plot itself is intriguing enough from page 1. Dashing Richard Jury spots a lovely woman on a bus. This wouldn't usually get the ball rolling for a set of murders, but this is Grimes and ANYTHING can happen!
Another fascinating facet of this tale is the insight into London's Art scene and a particularly repulsive set of paintings by Ralph Rees called "Siberian Snow" ( Melrose Plant's initiation to these works is indeed laugh-out-loud !)
With murders to solve and Lord Ardry in tow, Jury finds himself in a pseudo-romantic/homicidal/engimatic world that never appears to be as it seems. And there are, of course,many a worthy Jury/Plant rendezvous, this time at Borings: Melrose's Gentlemen's club. As soon as the Earl of Caverness can brush the dust off of his old entitled card he is an asset to the mystery and to Jury, schmoozing it up with elderly actresses and ten year old girls, buying ice cream and treating Bea Slocum to "Steak and Chips"; all the while being as charming and magnetic as a crossword-solving earl is allowed to be !Loved this one !
Want to read again!
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Intersting mix of characters, Avril 13 2002
Rarely are there completely amoral characters in Martha Grimes' novels. The character of "Dana," if that is what we are to call her, comes close here--a woman who has exhausted the thrill of risk for monetary gain in her life and can only get a thrill from inventing new ways to take risks. (This is mixed with a spoken longing to just lead a normal, British life, which is not completely an act, I think.) Richrad Jury is still looking for a soulmate in this novel, and instead runs into a character who is as unable to commit as he is. In this novel Jury seems to be presented with a variety of alternatives for his life: continuing his solitary life, letting "Kate McBride" in, or letting Carole-ann in. All of these alternatives are eductive in some way. Melrose Plant also seems to be trying out alternative lives in this book--he stays at Borings, a hilariously funny traditional men's club, and also succumbs to the dubious attractions of the Cripps' establishment. Along the way we see new aspects to Bea Slocum, a character who seems to bring out the best in Melrose, and Diane Demornay, who comes along at the right moment to save the day. This is a good example of Grimes' later Richard Jury novels, which certainly have complex, interesting plots, but actually are more psychological studies of her main characters. I like this later work a great deal.
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The Stargazey by Martha Grimes, Déc 31 2001
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Do you like classic writing, British style, and a compelling story? Read "The Stargazey: A Richard Jury Mystery," which was my introduction to both "Jury" and Martha Grimes. Do you quickly tire of repetitive foul language, indiscriminate sex, and gore as a substitute for high quality reading? Then this is for you. Grimes creates believeable modern-day characters with all the humor, angst, and variable emotions that we all carry, then writes with a quality reminiscent of Wilke Collin's "Woman In White." A mystery that respects the reader's intelligence, Grimes plays no "mind games" with the reader. A mysterious incident in modern-day St. Petersburg, Russia, culminating in murder, launches a mystery that is not fully resolved until the end. You get to piece it all together with Jury and his cohort Lord Ardry as they explore various leads in the world of art, with cagey suspects of uppercrust, lowercrust, and even "sassy-girl-child" variety, all to solve the mystery of a woman on a bus--one who closely resembles a second murder victim found in one of London's best-kept secret gardens. The strands are woven, twisted, and pulled, until finally the delicate tapestry of a serial murderer is spun. Don't miss this ride through local pubs, a high class British "Men's Club", avant gard art studios and their avant gard family-ownerships, clues from Russia, Paris, Brussels, and points far-removed, to uncover more than one family secret.
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