Martha Grimes
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 21
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English
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Scotland Yard superintendent, Richard Jury investigates the murder of wealthy bachelor Billy Maples in a shady London motel. He discovers connections between the murder and the distant past through Maples' grandfather, who served as one of Britain's top code breakers during WWII.
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English
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Candy and Karl are hitmen with a difference: they have scruples. They venture into the murky Manhattan publishing scene and come to the aid of a writer who is being sued by her unscrupulous literary agent, L. Bass Hess, a man determined to get a fifteen percent commission for a book he didn't sell. The contract killers join forces with publishing mogul Bobby Mackenzie and mega bestselling writer Paul Giverney to rid the mean streets of Hess, not by...