Richard Jury mysteries
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 1
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2013
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English
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From bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series.
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...
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...
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The old fox deceiv'd , Richard Jury mysteries volume 2
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English
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A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady's mansion. But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace. There, drinks all...
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[1984]
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English
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In this fourth ingenious adventure Grimes returns with her master of detection, Richard Jury, Detective Superintendent, Scotland Yard. Jury is shrewd, charming, kind, perceptive, and nearly unflappable--except in the presence of bewitching eyes and precocious children. He needs all his wits and the help of his aristocratic unofficial aide Melrose Plant to track down a most complex murderer.
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Help the poor struggler , Richard Jury mysteries volume 6
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The deer leap , Richard Jury mysteries volume 7
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The five bells and bladebone , Richard Jury mysteries volume 9
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The old silent: a Richard Jury novel , Richard Jury mysteries volume 10
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[1991]
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English
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When Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn into a brief affair with a troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth, her subsequent death makes him a suspect in her murder. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets. Plant does what he is bidden, in his own particular style, and what he uncovers is a shocking sheaf of surprises about...
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The case has altered: a Richard Jury mystery , Richard Jury mysteries volume 14
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1998.
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English
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Richard Jury is intrigued by a woman traveling the Fulham road on a double-decker bus. He follows her to the gates of Fulham Palace, where he stops. He later wonders if the death in the Palace's walled garden could have been averted if he had gone in.
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The Old Wine Shades: a Richard Jury mystery , Richard Jury mysteries volume 20
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2014.
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English
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"At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson - a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental - a fall caused by vertigo - but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that...
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2018.
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English
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"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied...
25) The old success
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2019.
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English
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"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 her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury--twenty miles away on Land's End--is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink...