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Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury, Superintendent, Scotland Yard, is summoned to Littlebourne, a village forty miles from London, to solve a murder.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
The Dirty Duck is a pub in Shakespeare's beloved Stratford, and in this pub Miss Gwendolyn Bracegirdle of Sarasota, Florida, fresh from a performance of As You Like It, takes her last drink. A few minutes later she is slashed ear to ear, the only clue: two lines from an unknown poem printed across a theater program. The razor-happy murderer, it seems is stalking a group of rich American tourists. And Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, just...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
In this Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes listeners to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While the puzzling deaths of village pets may raise some idle gossip over a pint or two at the Deer Leap, the village pub, this hardly seems a case for Superintendent Jury of Scotland yard. Nor does it seem much of a challenge for the combined deductive powers of Jury and Melrose,...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1986
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 9
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury discovers the truth of two unusual killings between the country estate of Watermeadows and a pub in the Limehouse district in London's East End.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 10
Language
English
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Description
The Scotland Yard superintendent that witnesses a killing in an old inn and his colleague who wishes he could perform one on his aunt are only two of many characters that hover around the center of a gruesome mystery.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury becomes involved in a love affair with a pretty widow and finds himself a suspect in a murder investigation.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Formats
Description
Police superintendent Richard Jury travels to Baltimore to investigate the murder of a former British subject.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Formats
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
Richard Jury mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
While Melrose Plant impersonates an antiques expert, Richard Jury investigates the scene of a baffling double murder in the Lincolnshire fens, after the bodies of two local women turn up and Jenny Kennington, Jury's long-time flame, becomes the prime
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Saturday night. It was not a night to be spending alone, riding a bus. When he was a teenager at the comprehensive, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least your mates to raise hell with, Saturday night alone would have been shameful. One wouldn't want to be seen alone on a Saturday night…. Who are you kidding? That was never your life, Jury, not yours.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
15) The old success
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Series
Language
English
Description
"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 stands in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End--is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary...
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