Viking Books, 2001. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Initialed date and 2-word critique on first end paper. Slight shelf wear.. Rodger, George (Magnum Photos Jacket art by). 1 Black textured and blue smooth paper over boards, silver spine titles. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. Set in London, a last bomb site of World War II, a pub called the Blue Last, is excavated 50 years later, unearthing 2 skeletons. Was there a child survivor back then, or not? Also, there is a fresh corpse, son of the one-time owner of the pub, found shot in his house. His manuscript about the blitzkrieg is missing. With this, Grimes had authored 17 Richard Jury mystery fiction novels, 5 others, and a poetry volume.

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In The Blue Last , Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with—the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been posing for over fifty years as a child who didn't. The grandchild of brewery magnet Oliver Tyndale supposedly survived that December 1940 bombing . . . but did she? Mickey also has a murder to solve. Simon Croft, prosperous City financial broker, and son of the one-time owner of The Blue Last is found shot to death in his Thames-side house. But the book he was writing about London during the German blitzkrieg has disappeared. Jury wants to get eyes and ears into Tynedale Lodge, and looks to his friend, Melrose Plant, to play the role. Reluctantly, Plant plays it, accompanied on his rounds of the Lodge gardens by nine-year-old Gemma Trim, orphan and ward of Oliver Tynedale; and Benny Keagan, a resourceful twelve-year-old orphaned delivery boy. And Richard Jury may not make it out alive. A stolen book, stolen lives, or is any of this what it seems? Identity, memory, provenance - these are all called into question in The Blue Last

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Librería: Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
Inventario del vendedor #: Alibris.41710001871
Título: The Blue Last (A Richard Jury Mystery)
Autor: Grimes, Martha
Ilustrador: Rodger, George (Magnum Photos Jacket art by)
Formato/Encuadernación: Hard cover
Estado del libro: Usado - Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Initialed date and 2-word critique on first end paper. Slight shelf wea
Cantidad disponible: 1
Edición: First edition. 1st printing.
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 067003004X
ISBN 13: 9780670030040
Editorial: Viking Books
Lugar de publicación: New York
Fecha de publicación: 2001
Palabras clave: Blitzkrieg in London|World War II London bombings|Mystery
Catálogos del vendedor: Mysteries;

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Hedgehog's Whimsey Books was born in a random moment when I decided to become a used books seller. Beginning in 2001, I apprenticed myself with a longtime pro in the next town, hoping to learn her secrets. She encouraged my free help but was wary of sharing all those secrets. Nonetheless, she turned me loose when she felt I would not embarrass her; she was impressed, finding I actually knew something about books and authors and styles. I am still learning, and I am having a good time with the random avalanches of books to be recycled into good homes, one by one. Inventory has mounted: my mother downsized her 7,000-plus library, and we (my Geezer and I) went to library book sales, yard emporiums on weekends, estate dispersals, and added the books my kids left behind, wanting to stock their own shelves anew. Some folks simply tooled down our dirt road and left boxes on our porch. Myself? Well, I am also a photographer, journalist, curious stuff collector, avid reader, writer, editor, small-time publisher, and online pontificator. At Hedgehog Enterprises, I do "Words & Pictures by & for Folks with Prickly Backs, Soft Bellies, & Small Brains", established in 1991. Since I have the smallest brain (by unpopular vote), I am the Head Hedgehog. Do I specialize in particular genres? I thought I did, but my barn has lots of Geezer-built shelves, and we have many interests, so topics vary, as do book conditions and editions. I try to describe such, and sometimes have too much fun as I poke along. There is no charge for the therapy of browsing, folks, so find my sites and stay awhile. If a purchase results, know that the tax collector in Newport, New Hampshire, may get a pleasant surprise. Or, I may buy a few more apple cider donuts or sweet potatoes. No pressure. Hedgehogs do have yearnings. If you should visit by chance or by appointment, enjoy our old New Hampshire farmhouse location alongside the Sugar River and its companion recreation Rail Trail, nearby two historic railroad covered bridges just off Chandlers Mill Road. Feel welcome. -- Lucy G Wells, proprietor.

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