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It is a rainy day in London's Camden Passage when Scotland Yard
superintendent Richard Jury meets a pretty and strangely troubled widow
named Jane Holdsworth. He is drawn into a passionate affair with
her--and becomes a suspect in a murder investigation. Unable to leave
London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Coverness, to the Lake
District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets.
Posing an an eccentric librarian--hardly too out of character--Plant
goes from scruffy pub to child's tree house accumulating a sheaf of
shocking surprises about the death prone Holdsworth clan and its growing
number of orphans.
It is a rainy day in London's Camden Passage when Scotland Yard
superintendent Richard Jury meets a pretty and strangely troubled widow
named Jane Holdsworth. He is drawn into a passionate affair with
her--and becomes a suspect in a murder investigation. Unable to leave
London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Coverness, to the Lake
District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets.
Posing an an eccentric librarian--hardly too out of character--Plant
goes from scruffy pub to child's tree house accumulating a sheaf of
shocking surprises about the death prone Holdsworth clan and its growing
number of orphans.
- ISBN 0345374568
00612
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