The Case Has Altered

A Richard Jury Mystery

The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly against dimishment. This is a landscape that can easily deceive, the fens, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as if to say, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as to say, You’re on your own, mate–much like the habitues of the only pub for miles around called The Case Has Altered.
The Lincolnshire fens are the right setting for Richard Jury’s latest case, a mystifying double murder. The body of one woman is found on the wash; another woman lies floating in a canal in Windy Fen. Both women are connected with Fengate: Dorcas Reese, a servant; Verna Dunn, the louche ex-wife of the owner, Max Owen, a man with a passion for antiques. So when the principal suspect turns out to be Jenny Kennington, a woman Jury has long loved, he decides he needs someone inside Fengate, someone who can impersonate an antiques expert…

Enjoy!

The real murder mystery is well done and does highlight the need for investigators to avoid preconceptions. The real courtroom work is rather good, but the courtroom drama involving Agatha's scam is positively brilliant!
Steve West deserves an award for not losing it in the funny parts!

Another great Richard Jury mystery read by Steve West.

Good mystery. Some romance for Richard Jury. Some tomfoolery for Melrose Plante and the regulars in Little Piddleton. You cannot beat the characters or the dialog in these mysteries.

Good girl Martha .

I love Martha Grimes. I never just pick her writing apart. May she live forever.

Great narrator

Melrose Plant did not see his Aunt Agatha or Richard Jury again after the trial concluded.

Steve West’s narration is such a pleasure!

I had already read and enjoyed all the Richard Jury novels before I started listening to them on Audible. I was kind of tentative at first because I worried I wouldn’t like it if the voices sounded different than I imagined them, but I was hooked from the beginning! I love the way Mr.West does so many different voices - especially Wiggins’s and Aunt Agatha’s, and Richard Jury’s voice is perfect! It must be quite a production to put it all together! I should have reviewed before this because they are all delightful.