The Old Contemptibles


Hardcover
(January 1991)
Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 0316328944
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Reprint edition
(March 1992)
Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345374568
Audio Cassette
Abridged edition
(February 1991)
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0671735691
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(January 1991)
Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 0316328987
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(June 1999)
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0671045008
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Abridged edition
(August 1998)
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0671577670
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"When Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn into a brief affair with a troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth, her subsequent death makes him a suspect in her murder. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets. Plant does what he is bidden, in his own particular style, and what he uncovers is a shocking sheaf of surprises about the death-prone Holdsworth clan and its growing number of orphans...." -- from the Amazon.com website




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