Help the Poor Struggler

Name: Help the Poor Struggler
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Martha Grimes
ISBN: 9781442363144

Author: Martha Grimes

Narrator: Steve West

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 08/27/2013

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Suspense & Thriller, Traditional British

Synopsis

Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalvie…with clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.

About Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, twenty-five of them featuring Richard Jury. The recipient of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deb on April 25, 2022

This is another series that, for me, is always a hit, title after title. These books could be read as standalones, but reading them in order provides the most enjoyment for me because I like seeing the development of the Richard Jury character.......more

Goodreads review by Louise on July 27, 2015

A good gripping mystery, although it wasn't at all clear what the motive was in the cold case murder. Brian Macalvie was introduced. I prefer it when Melrose Plant has a larger role.......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on February 17, 2022

This was good (especially as Jury and the gang figure out the clues at the end) but the ending ruins the book - it wraps up quickly, doesn't make any sense/isn't explained. (view spoiler)[I didn't expect Sara the governess to be the grown up version of the little girl, Tess, that we meet in the beginning. Tess's m (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Kathie on April 05, 2016

Wow! I didn't see that coming. A stunning ending to this mystery. But I'm still confused...is Robert really James? Which one killed Rose? How did the first Ashcroft brother die?......more

Goodreads review by Girl on January 21, 2018

Readable but not great.......more