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The Old Success

Martha Grimes
Chapters (53)
  1. Cover
  2. Also by Martha Grimes
  3. MARTHA GRIMES
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. PART I
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 3
  10. 4
  11. 5
  12. 6
  13. 7
  14. 8
  15. 9
  16. 10
  17. 11
  18. 12
  19. 13
  20. 14
  21. 15
  22. 16
  23. 17
  24. 18
  25. PART II
  26. 19
  27. 20
  28. 21
  29. 22
  30. 23
  31. 24
  32. 25
  33. 26
  34. PART III
  35. 27
  36. 28
  37. 29
  38. PART IV
  39. 30
  40. 31
  41. PART V
  42. 32
  43. 33
  44. 34
  45. 35
  46. PART VI
  47. 36
  48. 37
  49. 38
  50. 39
  51. PART VII
  52. 40
  53. Back Cover

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Also by Martha Grimes

Also by Martha Grimes

Richard Jury series

The Man with a Load of Mischief

The Old Fox Deceiv’d

The Anodyne Necklace

The Dirty Duck

Jerusalem Inn

Help the Poor Struggler

The Deer Leap

I Am the Only Running Footman

The Five Bells and the Bladebone

The Old Silent

The Old Contemptibles

The Horse You Came In On

Rainbow’s End

The Case Has Altered

The Stargazey

The Lamorna Wink

The Blue Last

The Grave Maurice

The Winds of Change

The Old Wine Shades

Dust

The Black Cat

Vertigo 42

The Knowledge

Andi Oliver series

Dakota

Biting the Moon

Emma Graham series

Hotel Paradise

Cold Flat Junction

Belle Ruin

Fadeaway Girl

Other novels

Foul Matter

The Way of All Fish

Memoir

Double Double

MARTHA GRIMES

THE OLD SUCCESS

A RICHARD JURY MYSTERY

Copyright

Copyright © 2019 by Martha Grimes

Cover design by Daniel Rembert

Cover artwork: Sea chart of LAND’S END & THE SCILLY ISLES.

Lizard & Penzance. COLLINS c1774/Alamy; boat artwork created from photo by gary radford/Fishing Boats on Beer Beach/Creative Commons

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FIRST EDITION

Published simultaneously in Canada

Printed in the United States of America

This book was set in 12.5-point Garamond Premier Pro

by Alpha Design & Composition

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition: November 2019

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available for this title.

ISBN 978-0-8021-4740-0

eISBN 978-0-8021-4741-7

Atlantic Monthly Press

an imprint of Grove Atlantic

154 West 14th Street

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Distributed by Publishers Group West

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Dedication

To my great and gracious daughter-in-law, Travis Holland

If I shouldn’t be alive

When the robins come,

Give the one in red cravat

A memorial crumb.

If I couldn’t thank you,

Being just asleep

You will know I’m trying

With my granite lip.

—Emily Dickinson

PART I

Hell Bay

1

Brian Macalvie looked down at the body of the woman whose face, beneath the lattice of seaweed and wet hair, was oddly serene.