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Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series-now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant....

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 1

The Man with a Load Of Mischief

by Martha Grimes

Two pubs in Long Piddleton are the sights of two murders. Scotland Yard's Richard Jury gets some help from Long Piddleton's own Melrose Plant to root out evil in the heart of the village.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 15

The Stargazey

by Martha Grimes

In Martha Grimes' newest, most intriguing novel yet, Richard Jury follows a beautiful blonde to the gates of Fulham Palace--only to hear of her death three days later. Soon Jury realizes that he may have finally met his match in this mystery woman--dead or alive... * A major bestseller: New York Times , USA Today , Los Angeles Times "Wondrously eccentric." -- New York Times Book Review "Delightfully... (more)

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 9

The Five Bells and Bladebone

by Martha Grimes

Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury is just one pint into his vacation in Long Piddleton when the murder of a notorious philanderer rocks the small village and its eccentric inhabitants... "A writer to relish." ( The New Yorker ) "Blends almost Dickensian sketches of character and social class with glimpses of a ferocious marriage." ( Time )

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 21

Dust

by Martha Grimes

When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor’s murder, Jury’s not sure what’s more perplexing: the circumstances of the fellow’s death, the conflicted stories of the man’s past, or the motivations of the case’s lead detective—the beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar. What Jury is sure of is that he’s in over his head, both with the inscrutable and challenging Aguilar and the... (more)

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 5

Jerusalem Inn

by Martha Grimes

Bad tidings come to Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant when clues from two corpses lead them to a remote country inn-where holiday cheer turns to holiday fear.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 20

The Old Wine Shades

by Martha Grimes

The latest in New York Times bestselling author Martha Grimes’s Richard Jury mystery series "The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn’t. . . . So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he’s drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive... (more)

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 8

I Am the Only Running Footman

by Martha Grimes

Finally back in print-a classic Richard Jury novel from "one of the established masters of the genre" ( Newsweek ). Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury takes on an elusive strangler in a case of family secrets-and family lies... "Witty...stylishly crafted." ( The Washington Post ) "<Grimes> gets our immediate attention <and> holds it...with something more than mere suspense." ( The... (more)

The Old Contemptibles (A Richard Jury Novel)

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 11

The Old Contemptibles (A Richard Jury Novel)

by Martha Grimes

A passionate affair comes to a crashing halt when Richard Jury's lover is found dead. And since Jury is himself a suspect, he must send Melrose Plant to her family's Lake District home, where secrets that rise to the surface threaten to pull the contentious clan under.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 10

The Old Silent (Richard Jury Mysteries)

by Martha Grimes

Violence finds a burned-out Richard Jury when he becomes the only witness to a murder in a cozy inn called the Old Silent. Though Nell Healey shot her husband in cold blood, Jury will go to any lengths to help her and break through her reticence to untangle a web of twisted motives-and twisted lives.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 7

Help the Poor Struggler

by Martha Grimes

Classic Richard Jury from the New York Times bestselling series. Near Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury must join forces with a hot-tempered constable to track down the killer.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 19

The Winds of Change

by Martha Grimes

Richard Jury embarks on the darkest investigation of his career when the dead body of a young London girl leads to the cold case of a missing girl in Launceston-an unsolved mystery that has haunted Police Officer Brian Macalvie for years.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 4

The Dirty Duck

by Martha Grimes

Superintendent Richard Jury has been wrong before. But when stating that "nothing ever happens in Stratford," he never imagined just how wrong he could be. Besides the stage murders committed nightly at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a real one has been performed not far from a popular pub known as The Dirty Duck.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 2

The Old Fox Deceiv'd

by Martha Grimes

Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and his sidekick Melrose Plant converge on a northern fishing village to hunt down a wily killer.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 6

The Deer Leap

by Martha Grimes

In a village plagued by missing pets, Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant face the worst of human nature when a chilling old crime leads them to a brand new way to die.

The Richard Jury Mysteries: Book 3

The Anodyne Necklace

by Martha Grimes

Third in the bestselling series. Scotland Yard's Richard Jury solves a bizarre murder in an even stranger town-and follows a treasure map to yet another chilling crime...

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The Lamorna Wink

by Martha Grimes

The Man with a Load Of Mischief

by Martha Grimes

The Stargazey

by Martha Grimes

The Five Bells and Bladebone

by Martha Grimes

Dust

by Martha Grimes

Jerusalem Inn

by Martha Grimes

The Old Wine Shades

by Martha Grimes

I Am the Only Running Footman

by Martha Grimes

The Old Contemptibles (A Richard Jury Novel)

by Martha Grimes

The Old Silent (Richard Jury Mysteries)

by Martha Grimes

Help the Poor Struggler

by Martha Grimes

The Winds of Change

by Martha Grimes

The Dirty Duck

by Martha Grimes

The Old Fox Deceiv'd

by Martha Grimes

The Deer Leap

by Martha Grimes

The Anodyne Necklace

by Martha Grimes