Martha Grimes

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1) The knowledge: a Richard Jury mystery

Author

Grimes, Martha

Series

Richard Jury
Richard Jury mystery volume 24

Publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

Language

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...

2) Vertigo 42: a Richard Jury mystery

Author

Grimes, Martha

Series

Richard Jury mystery volume 23

Publisher

Scribner

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Language

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...

3) The Grave Maurice: a Richard Jury mystery

Author

Grimes, Martha

Series

Richard Jury volume 18

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2002

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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17

Physical Desc

424 p. ; 25 cm.

Language

English

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While flat on his back in a hospital bed, sleuth Richard Jury overhears a story that provokes his next murder investigation.

4) The old success

Author

Grimes, Martha

Series

A Richard Jury mystery volume 25

Pub. Date

2019.

Edition

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Physical Desc

243 pages ; 24 cm.

Language

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...