The Blue Last, Martha Grimes
A thorough Richard Jury novel. The series bit-characters are beginning
to seem mechanical to me, but the mystery is so well done that I can't
think of anything to say about it that wouldn't be a spoiler.
Because it's a Jury novel, his finding the solution does not advance
the cause of human happiness in any clear way. I should look up the
philosophy of pragmatism.
So wrote clew in
Mystery.