Martha Grimes
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jury investigates the death of a young escort who has been murdered behind a local pub. The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Jury is pulled into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder and finds himself in over his head as he is thrown into London's nightlife to learn more about the victim's mysterious past.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series—now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant....
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 25
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
As the New York Times–bestselling series continues, an unlikely trio of detectives teams up to solve three murders spanning three English counties.
When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found...
When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in London, Jury sends his friend Melrose Plant, former Earl of Caverness, to the Holdsworth family's Lake District home to pose as an eccentric librarian. Plant discovers that his catalogue cards contain less data on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey than they do on tantalizing...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running Footman, near Berkeley Square in London's fashionable Mayfair District. Devon policeman Brian Macalvie is convinced that the two murders are connected. And thus, in his eighth case, Richard Jury is drawn into the so-called Porphyria killings....
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 13
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection-or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he's following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot...
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Summary: At a rundown, once-fashionable lakefront resort hotel in a small town, a twelve-year-old girl becomes obsessed with the drowning death of another young girl forty years earlier, a fascination that has deadly repercussions in the present.
10) Foul matter
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Paul Giverney, an excellent author, schemes to have Clive Esterhaus be the editor for his newest book, but the plan turns into a foul matter.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack and Hammer. Suddenly Long Piddleton had good reason to be wary of everyone! Its cozy pubs and inns with their polished pewter and blazing hearths had become...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise.
Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in
...13) The Blue Last
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with—the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case in the Saturday paper and enlists his whole gang of merry characters to investigate.