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1) Dust
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Series
Language
English
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Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 12
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 20
Language
English
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Description
Richard Jury considers the authenticity of a fantastical tale, told by a stranger and fellow patron at the Old Wine Shades pub in London, about a string theory scientist's wife, son, and dog, who disappeared without a trace nine months earlier.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 4
Publisher
NAL
Pub. Date
c1984.
Language
English
Description
The "Dirty Duck" pub had enjoyed a blameless reputation until an American tourist took her last drink there before being murdered, and Superintendent Richard Jury finds himself at the center of the hunt for the killer.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 14
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Richard Jury investigates two murders in the hope of clearing the woman he loves. She is Lady Jennifer Kennington, a suspect in the deaths of an actress and a maid.
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Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991.
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.
11) The deer leap
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 7
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1985.
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.
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Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Richard Jury investigates the murder of Simon Lean, greedy nephew of wealthy Lady Summerston, and the list of suspects includes Simon's wife Hannah, beautiful Diane Demorney, bookshop owner Theo Wrenn Brown, and best-selling romance writer.
13) Rainbow's end
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 13
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 15
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
November. In a bleak month, a bleak Richard Jury takes an aimless ride on one of London's icons--the old double-decker bus, a #14 traveling the Fulham Road. His attention is caught by a woman "with hair so gossamer-pale you could see the moon through it," wearing a fur coat, boarding his bus in front of a pub called the Stargazey.
15) Vertigo 42
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 23
Publisher
Scribner
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...
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 24
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2018]
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 mystery volume 19
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mystery volume 2
Publisher
NAL
Pub. Date
c1982.
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 mystery volume 1
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found a dead man with his head stuck in a beer keg. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out of the beam of the pub's sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury arrives in Long Piddleton and finds everyone in the postcard village looking outside of town for the killer. Except for...
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