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by Martha Grimes (Author) "The doors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre emptied another audience into a mean rain that always seemed to know the minute the performance ended ..." (more)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; New edition edition (Jun 25 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0747230048
ISBN-13: 978-0747230045
Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g

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Stratford-upon-Avon is more renowned for its Shakespeare than its slaughter. The "Dirty Duck" pub had enjoyed a blameless reputation until an American tourist took her last drink there before being murdered, and Superintendent Richard Jury finds himself at the centre of the hunt for the killer.

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The only clues to a murder are two lines from a poem, and Inspector Jury musttake a crash course in the bloodier side of Elizabethan verse. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Short And Funny, April 24 2004

By	Ellen Thorp (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dirty Duck (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of her shorter stories that can be enjoyed in an afternoon. The meeting of Melrose Plant and Harvey Schoenberg is hysterical! I felt I could see Melrose's brain desperately trying to decode this odd little man's obscure theory of Shakespeare and friends. And yes, some Americans in Europe can be a little overbearing, when left to their own means. I enjoyed it ever so much!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not as Good as the Others in this Wonderful Series, Mar 10 2002

By	Martha E. Nelson (Watertown, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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I am puzzled by Martha Grimes' response to Americans in this novel. As an American, albeit one who is writing British mysteries, she comes up with a whole tour full of unsympathetic American tourists here--even down to what I think are supposed to be humerous names for them. I think this is unfortunate, since it weakens the book, which has a plot that could have held up just as well if the characters were less insistantly annoying.
Martha Grimes is one of my favorite writers, and I don't think this novel holds up anywhere near as well as the others in this wonderful series.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Be careful what you wish for, Jan 5 2002

By	JRob (IL USA) - See all my reviews

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I was taking a few days off work (can you call it vacation if you mostly stay home and drive your kids and their friends around?) so I didn't want to read the stack of business books waiting for me. And I didn't feel ready to get back into Tolkien. I told my wife I wanted a mystery that I could read in a couple of days - nothing as cerebral as Holmes, but not a fluff (vacation shouldn't be a total waste). She hands me The Dirty Duck. Yes another really great Detective Superintendent Richard Jury story. A bucket full of interesting (read: quirky, but loveable) characters in a great setting (Stratford-on Avon) - only one of them has this nasty thing about using a razor in a most unconventional way - and then leaving a bit of poetry on the corpses as a signature. And just to add a twist, a little boy who is related to two of the victims is missing. I put Martha Grimes right up there with Christie for character and plot twists any day. If you haven't sampled Martha Grimes yet, you don't know what you are missing.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Witty but not well plotted
This is the first book by Martha Grimes I have read, after a couple of friends recommended her. She has a witty style and is obviously well-read (references to Shakespeare and... Read more

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