In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the new
Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called
the Old Silent, while his highborn, amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes to
he could perform one as he drives his impossible Aunt Agatha to the Old Swan in
Harrogate.
Caught up in a triple murder, Jury would go to any lengths
to help Nell Healey, the lovely widow of one of the victims. But Nell Healey
remains silent as the Yorkshire moors, quiet as the grave, while the scope of
the mystery widens.
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