FOUL MATTERa novel by
MARTHA GRIMES
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Martha Grimes deserts her usual English crime milieu and her perennial hero Richard Jury, and sets this novel in New York's East Village. When crime writer Paul Giverny becomes a hot property, he uses the opportunity to engineer some changes at the publishing company of his dreams--a plan that eventually involves not only publishing chicanery but murder.
 
"Does laughing uncontrollably on a subway train constitute legitimate literary criticism? If it does, then Foul Matter, Martha Grimes's evil-minded satire of the venal, not to say murderous, practices of the New York publishing industry, gets a great review from me"
--The New York Times Book Review