Love Jury and Melrose's friendship, and Jury is such a sweetheart, odd for detectives. He's sweet and kind. ( )

Big disappointment. Farfetched solution. The Dirty Duck is a famous pub in Stratford and the story centers around American tourists visiting there. The story starts with a missing boy, from a large family, and then the murders begin. The characters were caricatures of rich southerners and stuffy British snobs. It also was very dated with the Concord jet flying in 4 hrs back and forth. ( )

Enjoyed this. Good little murder mystery. Kept me entertained. ( )

I want to like it, but I don't.

Superintendent Richard Jury is in Stratford-on-Avon on some regular police business. He’s given a call to Melrose Plant to come meet up. Plant has taken Jury up on the invite to visit and has also come to Stratford to avoid the “American cousins” from Milwaukee descending on Ardly End. Aunt Agatha, Plant’s American aunt-by-marriage, had hopes of impressing her American cousins with Plant’s titles and wealth. A visit to Stratford in the middle of tourist season was the only way Plant could avoid the invasion.

Instead of taking in a few of the nightly Shakespeare performances, the two men find themselves dealing with a missing boy and then three slash murders. The people involved are all from the same tour group. Three are from the same family.

The murders are quite violent and at each one two lines from an Elizabethan poem are found. How do these poetic quotes tie to each death and to each other?
The murder victims are all women. How does the missing boy play in and will he be found violently murdered also?

Grimes writes a good mystery that I find I can get into and escape in. I was not disappointed with this one. ( )