Jerusalem Inn Audiobook (Free)

From the rough but colorful pub that provides the novel’s title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English panorama has never held more atmosphere-or thwarted love. And Jury won’t have a more mysterious Christmas.

Five Days Before Christmas – On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury fits a female he could fall deeply in love with. He fits her inside a snow covered graveyard-not, he thinks, the best way to start an attahcment.

Four Times Before Xmas – Jury fits Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square-”a framework that might simplify thought,” says the priest, but Jury’s thoughts need more than symbols.

Three Days Before Christmas – Melrose Vegetable, Jury’s aristocratic and unofficial assistant, finds Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the set up snowbound guests he matches: Lady Assington, Beatrice Sleight, and the painter Edward Parmenger. When they all assemble in the dining area, Lady Assington announces, “I think we should possess a murder.”