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Richard Jury mysteries volume 17
Language
English
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Chief Inspector Michael Haggerty asks Richard Jury to prove brewing magnate Oliver Tynedale's granddaughter is an impostor. Excavation of Tynedale's bombed London pub, the Blue Last, has turned up two skeletons -- was the child found his real granddaughter? Meanwhile Melrose Plant reluctantly poses as an under gardener to investigate the nanny who purportedly saved the baby's life.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 22
Language
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, and he is now more wary than ever. He is deeply suspicious when requested on a case far out of his jurisdiction in an outlying village where a young woman has been murdered behind the 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. Identifying...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 18
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Language
English
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A strange and unsolved case of abduction is reopened by Melrose Plant, reexamined by Richard Jury-and revisited by a killer...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
2005, c1985
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1985, c1981
Physical Desc
317 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Richard Jury and Melrose Plant uncover dark secrets from the past when they investigate the deaths of two strangers at two different English inns in Long Piddleton where the village's most distinguished citizens become the prime suspects.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm.
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...
Author
Series
Richard Jury volume 5
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One chilly Twelfth Night, a murder disturbs the peace of Rackmoor. Inspector Jury of Scotland Yard must travel to the Yorkshire fishing village to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
425 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Scotland Yard superintendent that witnesses a killing in an old inn and his colleague who wishes he could perform one on his aunt are only two of many characters that hover around the center of a gruesome mystery.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
331 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Police superintendent Richard Jury travels to Baltimore to investigate the murder of a former British subject.
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
All roads don't lead to the village of Ashdown Dean. The one that did led writer Polly Praed right to the police station...to be questioned about a corpse. Poor Polly admitted to opening the door, but the dead woman had fallen out quite on her own.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 18 cm.
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 mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury, Superintendent, Scotland Yard, is summoned to Littlebourne, a village forty miles from London, to solve a murder.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Richard Jury has been sent on a dead end chase, Melrose Plants heads for Cornwall to take up temporary residence in Bentchley House where Plant's past and the tragic past of the Bentchleys converge.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scotland Yard's Richard Jury is drawn into the investigation of a secretive, wealthy bachelor's murder and finds himself coping with a forbidding head detective and too many false leads.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury becomes involved in a love affair with a pretty widow and finds himself a suspect in a murder investigation.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
His hospital experience may still be fresh in his mind, but Scotland Yard's Richard Jury wastes no time in involving himself in another case, the murder of an anonymous five-year-old girl, shot in the back. Who could have done such a thing? When he learns that the child was found near a house frequented by pedophiles, he's convinced there's a link. His suspicions grow stronger when the man supposedly behind the operation turns out to be the father...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Onyx Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
419 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury, aimlessly riding a bus through London, becomes captivated with a gossamer-haired woman who boards the bus at the Stargazey pub, and follows her when she disembarks into a world of intrigue.
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