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Richard Jury mysteries volume 15
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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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Richard Jury mysteries volume 22
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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.
4) Vertigo 42
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 23
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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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Richard Jury mysteries volume 25
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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...
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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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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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Richard Jury mysteries volume 24
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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...
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In a small, sleepy resort town where the lake divides the rich from the just-folks, and where secrets are almost impossible to keep, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her only confidant is the town sheriff, Sam DeGheyn, and what they share in common is obsession: Maud cannot bear watching her twenty-year-old son take his final steps out of her life and into' his own; Sam cannot let go of the unsolved murders of three local women and...
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