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.

Police superintendent Richard Jury travels to Baltimore to investigate the murder of a former British subject.

Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury flies to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where an address links three women murdered in England. One died in Salisbury's Roman ruins, a second in Exeter Cathedral and a third at the Tate Gallery in London.

With his good friend Richard Jury on a fool's errand in Northern Ireland, Melrose Plant tries in vain to escape his aunt and his Long Piddleton lethargy by fleeing to Cornwall. There he rents a house furnished with tragic memories.

Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury takes on an elusive strangler in a case of family secrets-and family lies...

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...

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.

"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...