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(0)Martha Grimes
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 22
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English
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Three months have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt-ridden after his lover's tragic auto accident. He is deeply suspicious when assigned a case far out of his jurisdiction in an outlying village where a young woman was murdered behind the local publishing The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives no clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.
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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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Richard Jury mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise.
Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in
...4) Foul matter
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English
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The bestselling author of the Richard Jury novels delivers a razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing. And the praise is pouring in:
"A hilarious and wicked caper-adventure on the evils of the book business."
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Does laughing uncontrollably on a subway train constitute legitimate literary criticism? If it does, then Foul Matter...gets a great review from me." —New
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 16
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English
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With his good friend Richard Jury on a fool's errand in Northern Ireland, Melrose Plant tries in vain to escape his aunt and his Long Piddleton lethargy by fleeing to Cornwall. There he rents a house furnished with tragic memories.
While Melrose Plants and Commander of the Devon and Cornwall police, Brian Macalvie, sit in The Wink, a pub in Lamorna, comparing notes on recent murders, they receive word of yet another murder--in Bletchley House--and...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 17
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English
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In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with—the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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It is a chilly and foggy Twelfth Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward piece of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that proves a tangled maze of unrequited loves, unrevenged wrongs, and even undiscovered murders.
Inspector Jury finds no easy answers in his investigation--not even the identity of the victim, a beautiful young woman. Was she Gemma Temple, an impostor, or was she really Dillys
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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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Richard Jury mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
2019.
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...
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Emma Graham mysteries volume 4
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English
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Emma Graham continues her investigation into the disappearance of the Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than 20 years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father makes her even more determined to learn the truth.
Twelve-year-old sleuth Emma Graham's investigation into the twenty-year-old case of the disappearance of an infant is furthered by the arrivals of the baby's father and a mysterious drifter who seems to like everyone...
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Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury flies to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where an address links three women murdered in England. One died in Salisbury's Roman ruins, a second in Exeter Cathedral and a third at the Tate Gallery in London.
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Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The murder of an unidentified five-year-old girl in a shabby London street leads Superintendent Richard Jury to suspect well-known financier Viktor Baumann, owner of an iniquitous house on the same street that serves as the hub of a pedophilia ring. When a second unidentified murder victim--this time a woman is found in the gardens of Declan Scott's estate, Commander of the Devon and Cornwall Police, Brian Macalvie, thinks there is a connection. Three...
15) The deer leap
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
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English
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Emma Graham mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, awakened to a sense of her own danger, pursues the truth about the suspicious drowning of another twelve-year-old near the Hotel Paradise, a once-fashionable resort that belongs to Emma's family.
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Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Discovering the crumbling remains of a once-fabulous hotel in the woods near her small home town, twelve-year-old cub reporter Emma Graham stumbles on clues pertaining to a forty-year unsolved crime involving deeply buried secrets.
20) Dakota
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English
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Andi Oliver, an amnesiac and drifter, is hired by Klavan's, a massive pig farming facility that specializes in the dark art of modern livestock management. As Andi begins to uncover the truth about Klavan's, two men are on her trail, one a gunman hired to kill her, another who has followed her across three states demanding something from her forgotten past.