The Blue Last

A Richard Jury Mystery
Mickey Haggerty, an inspector with the City police, has asked for Richard Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once stood a pub called the Blue Last. Mickey believes a child who survived the bombing has posed for more than fifty years as a child who didn't. Mickey also has a murder to solve. Simon Croft, prosperous broker and son of the one-time owner of the Blue Last, is found shot to death in his home but the book he was writing about London during the German blitzkrieg has disappeared. A stolen book? A stolen life? Is any of this what it seems? Identity, memory, and provenance - these are all called into question in THE BLUE LAST.