First Time in Paperback
SummaryRichard Jury returns to the back streets and back rooms
of London in The New York Times bestselling series.
When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation
of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not sure what's more
perplexing: the circumstances of the fellow's death, the
conflicted stories of the man's past, or the motivations of
the case's lead detective—the beautiful and forbidding
Lu Aguilar. What Jury is sure of is that he's in over his
head, both with the inscrutable and challenging Aguilar and
the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic Billy
Maples, last seen in a club named Dust.
A web of clues draws Jury to the trendy Clerkenwell
galleries, clubs, and hotels, to the dark stories behind
Maples's family, and to the Sussex town of Rye, where Billy
had temporarily taken up the tenancy of Lamb House, the
charming home where Henry James composed his three
masterworks . . . and a place with secrets of its own. With
Melrose Plant investigating Lamb House, Aguilar interceding,
and the appearance of Maples's mysterious young nephew,
Scotland Yard's finest—and now infamous—will need
every bit of his intelligence and quiet charm to crack the case.
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