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The Dirty Duck
The Dirty Duck | Martha Grimes
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The Dirty Duck is a pub in Shakespeares beloved Stratford, and in this pub Miss Gwendolyn Bracegirdle of Sarasota, Florida, fresh from a performance of As You Like It, takes her last drink. A few minutes later she is slashed ear to ear, the only clue: two lines from an unknown poem printed across a theater program. The razor-happy murderer, it seems is stalking a group of rich American tourists. And Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, just passing through Stratford for a glimpse of the intriguing Lady Kennington, instead takes a crash course in the bloodier side of Elizabethan verse.
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majkia
The Dirty Duck | Martha Grimes
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Love Jury and Melrose's friendship, and Jury is such a sweetheart, odd for detectives. He's sweet and kind.

tokorowilliamwallace I've started his The Lamorna Wink in the series, set around the Cornish coast. Have you read that one? 8mo
majkia @tokorowilliamwallace No, not yet. Hope you enjoy it. 8mo
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PatriciaU
The Dirty Duck | Martha Grimes
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Here‘s the second in my “Six Degrees” reading challenge. Enjoy!

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emtobiasz
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While earlier in the series than the last one I read, this is one of the bloodier installments in the Richard Jury series. It also feels just quintessentially 80s, with all of the smoking, drinking, cringeworthy lack of political correctness, and references to Sassoon that entails.

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Caitriona
The Dirty Duck | Martha Grimes
Mehso-so

A rather bloodier mystery for Jury's 4th outing, this time to Stratford-upon-Avon. Melrose Plant again pitches in, at least partially to avoid Agatha's visiting family. Strong transatlantic flavour, slightly ridiculous plan by the baddie, and a melancholic ending. Not my favourite of these.