The Anodyne Necklace
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3rd book in the Richard Jury series.
Superintendent Richard Jury's investigation into the seemingly unrelated crimes of a London mugging and murder in the town of Littlebourne takes him to the local pub, the Anodyne Necklace, which is inhabited by a variety of colorful village characters.
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This was the best of the series yet. Nothing particularly annoyed me and the plot and characters were all solid. I read a lot of mysteries and I thought the mystery plot was actually very clever and completely fair play (meaning I had the opportunity and clues to solve the mystery myself along with the detectives.) it was much better plotted than the last two and definitely made me want to read the next one.
Some cozy mystery purists wrote reviews about how they didn't like the London scenes because they were unsavory, but I think strangling someone and chopping their fingers off is pretty unsavory, in fact all murder and most crime is pretty unsavory, so if you're reading a crime novel, what do you expect? I suppose I gravitate more towards detective mysteries so it didn't bother me much.
