by Martha Grimes · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266072441
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«Les cloches de Whitechapel» is the crime novel by Martha Grimes, published by Pocket in paperback (281 pages, in French).
In a foggy London, a young woman is murdered by the Thames, in Wapping. Almost at the same time, the corpse of Simon Lean, depraved nephew of wealthy lady Summerstone, appears on the Watermeadows estate. Superintendent Richard Jury investigates the possible connection between the two cases as he moves from aristocratic mansions to the most sordid East End.
The original work is «The Five Bells and Bladebone» (1987), ninth installment in the Superintendent Richard Jury series.
For readers of classic crime fiction and mystery with a British setting.
Martha Grimes is an American writer of detective fiction. She is best known for a series featuring Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, and Melrose Plant, an aristocrat turned amateur sleuth.
