Richard Jury mysteries
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Superintendent Richard Jury has been wrong before. But when stating that nothing ever happens in Stratford, he doesn't imagine just how wrong he can be. Besides the stage murders performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a real one has been committed not far from a popular pub know as the Dirty Duck. And the killer has left behind a fragment of Elizabethan verse - a rhyme that could mean death with each new line...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 6
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Superintendent Jury, his assistant, and a policeman in Devon attempt to solve the terrifying murder of three children.
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"New Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is convinced it's more than coincidence when two beautiful young women are found strangled to death with their own scarves -- one in Devon, the second outside a fashionable Mayfair pub. Both women were as strikingly similar in life as they were in death. Neither had enemies that Jury can find. Now, somewhere in the night, a killer is biding his time, beckoning Jury and Devon's local divisional commander,...
10) The Old silent
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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 is supposed to be on holiday when the telephone call comes. And in any case, what has sudden death on American soil to do with an English police superintendent? But when the victim turns out to be British by birth, and to have a distant connection with Jury's old acquaintance Lady Cray, he reluctantly pries himself loose from his pint at the Jack and Hammer.
13) Rainbow's end
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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.
15) The stargazey
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Saturday night is not a night to be spending alone...riding a bus. When he was a teenager, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least a mate to raise hell with, Saturday night alone would have been shameful....In a bleak November, a bleak Richard Jury takes an aimless ride on one of London's icons - the old double-decker bus. His attention is caught by a woman - with hair so gosamer-pale you could see the moon through it - leaving...
17) The blue last
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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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 Cambridgeshire,...
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Scotland Yard Detective Richard Jury investigates the shooting death of a five-year-old girl in London and suspects that it is connected to a pedophile ring that might also involve the abduction of Flora, the daughter of businessman Viktor Baumann, three years earlier.
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Over three successive nights, Harry Johnson spins a tale for Richard Jury in the Old Wine Shades, the story of a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day when they were in Surrey. No trace, no clue, no lead as to what happened. He's a fascinating bloke, this Harry Johnson--rich, handsome and brainy on the subject of quantum mechanics and superstring theory, which as some pretty funny notions about the nature of reality....
21) Dust
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Richard Jury is pulled into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder and finds himself in over his head as he is thrown into London's nightlife to learn more about the victim's mysterious past.
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Several weeks have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt-ridden after the tragic accident of Lu Aguilar. Now she lies in a coma, and Jury wants to stay near her. Instead, he has been tossed a case outside his jurisdiction, in the village of Chesham, where a beautiful young woman has been murdered in the grounds of a pub called the Black Cat. And the only witness to the murder is the black cat...
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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...
24) The knowledge
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Investigating a double homicide involving a brazen heist at a rarefied art gallery and casino, Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Richard Jury teams up with a motley assortment of Baker Street Irregulars to solve a case with ties to astrophysics, the Tanzanian gem mines and a long-planned act of revenge.--
25) The old success
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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...