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Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Lines from an unknown poem are the trademark of a brutal killer who is preying on a wealthy group of Americans visiting Stratford and bedeviling the investigation of Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 7
Language
English
Description
When a series of accidents befalls both animals and humans in the village of Ashdown Dean Superintendent Richard Jury, his aristocratic assistant, Melrose Plant, the local police and a fifteen-year-old animal lover join the search for the murderer.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 8
Language
English
Description
Brian Macalvie and Richard Jury are joined by Sergeant Wiggins and Melrose Plant in the investigation of the Porphyria killings.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 13
Language
English
Description
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection-or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he's following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 15
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 16
Language
English
Description
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 Richard Jury comes to investigate.--
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwall police takes this failure especially hard, since he had headed up the investigation three years ago when Flora disappeared one day from the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Scott's step-daughter has vanished. HIs wife Mary has died. "He really doesn't need a body in his garden", say Macalvie ...
The murder of an unidentified five-year-old girl in a shabby London street leads Superintendent Richard Jury to suspect...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 20
Language
English
Description
At the start of bestseller Grimes's compelling 20th Richard Jury mystery, the Scotland Yard detective is on suspension because he decided to save lives rather than wait for a warrant in his previous outing, The Winds of Change (2004). With time on his hands, Jury is ensnared by the intriguing tale spun by Harry Johnson, a man who, apparently, just happens upon him in a London pub, the Old Wine Shades. Despite himself, Jury is drawn in by Johnson's...
13) Dust
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Series
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
14) The black cat
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Vertigo 42
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
16) The knowledge
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
17) The old success
Author
Series
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...