Review: The Blue Last
from Library Journal, September 15, 2001
After a three-year hiatus, Grimes returns with her 17th Richard Jury
mystery. Here, Jury's old friend Mickey Haggerty, a London cop,
persuades him to investigate the murder of Simon Croft, perhaps
killed because he was writing a book that would expose a
50-year-old deception, the substitution of the granddaughter of
magnate Oliver Tynedale for the child of her nanny during the
London blitz. When he goes to Tynedale Lodge, Jury finds a
nine-year-old girl, Oliver's ward, who may also be a murder
target--but the evidence of miscreancy is inconclusive. There is an
odd subplot that sends Jury's friends Melrose Plant and Marshall
Trueblood to Italy in search of a painting's provenance, plus the
usual assortment of eccentric characters and two winning children.
The plot is as devious and convoluted as any Jury mystery, but
readers who aren't Renaissance fans may find the side trip to Italy
superfluous. For mystery and Jury aficionados.
-- Francine Fialkoff, Library Journal
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