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Richard Jury mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sergeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allan Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called "The Horse...
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Pub. Date
2004, c1983
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 18 cm.
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A bird-watching spinster and a penny-pinching peer may give Littlebourne its eccentric reputation, but murder puts the tiny village on the map. A stray dog is found gnawing on a bone ... that turns out to be a finger-- one of many missing from a corpse discovered in a nearby stream. Richard Jury is called to the scene, but it's in a shabby East End pub called the Anodyne Necklace where he links the Littlebourne murder with a mugging in London-- and...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case in the Saturday paper and enlists his whole gang of merry characters to investigate.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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pages cm.
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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...
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2001, ©1999
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 17 cm
Description
In an effort to save his wife, lawyer Dismas Hardy investigates the murder of a woman thrown out of a window. The victim was his wife's friend and she has been jailed for refusing to reveal a secret which the other confided to her.
13) The last juror
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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.
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Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 25 cm.
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While sitting in a London pub Richard Jury hears a story told by Harry Johnson about the disappearance of a good friend's wife and son (and dog). The vanished woman's husband excels in the esoteric subject of quantum mechanics, could this explain the disappearance? The dog did come back but how and from where?
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
364 pages; 25 cm.
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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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Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Declan Scott stood inside the room looking at Jury as if he were one more disappointment in a long list of them. Police, private investigators-all had failed to find the child Flora. Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwell police takes this failure especially hard.
20) With prejudice
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Gabriel Soto is a social recluse accused of the murder of Melina Mora, a free-spirited and deeply loved young woman. At the center of the media spotlight is Sandy Grunwald, an ambitious young female prosecutor whose political fortunes depend on her using the limited evidence to secure a conviction. But the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story--especially the jury. With striking originality and expert storytelling, the...
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