Steve West
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
2019.
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 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...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 24
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...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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A fur coat is the crucial piece of evidence when a dead woman is discovered in the gardens of Fulham Palace, a coat and woman strikingly like those Jury had seen the previous night on the number 14 bus.
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 14
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English
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Timeless, peaceful, and remote, the watery Lincolnshire fens seem an unlikely setting for murder. But two women--a notorious actress and a servant girl--have been killed there in the space of two weeks. The Lincolnshire police are sure the murders are connected--and they think a friend of Richard Jury is responsible. Jury is anxious to clear jenny Kennington's name. But the secretive suspects and tight-lipped locals are leading him nowhere. And with...
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English
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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,...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 12
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English
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The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sargeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allen Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called "The Horse...
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English
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Set in West Yorkshire and Cornwall, this story challenges Martha Grimes's major character, Superintendent Richard Jury, to find out the real reason that a perfectly sane and patient wife should murder her husband ten years after their only child has been kidnapped and presumably killed.
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