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When a beautiful tourist washes up on a wild inlet, inspector Richard Jury finds himself looking at a murder that's very similar to two other unsolved cases.
"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?...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Richard Tury of Scotland Yard spends his Christmas holiday at a colorful country inn near a vast estate inhabited by the titled, the rich, the famous, and--suddenly--the deceased.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
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. A British mystery
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Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st ed.
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
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Michael Haggerty asks his old friend Richard Jury to assist him in proving that the granddaughter of beer magnate Oliver Tynedale is in fact an imposter and that the real heiress died with her mother during the London blitz.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Richard Jury solves a string of disappearances and murders in Cornwall, including two grandchildren of an American fast-food magnate. But the leg work is done for him by his aristocratic and eccentric friend, Melrose Plant.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
10) The knowledge
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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 mysteries volume 13
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard, suspects there is a connection between three separate women found dead on his turf, but has to travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico to prove his theory.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
299 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury discovers the truth of two unusual killings between the country estate of Watermeadows and a pub in the Limehouse district in London's East End.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First Edition
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
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
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brian Macalvie and Richard Jury are joined by Sergeant Wiggins and Melrose Plant in the investigation of the Porphyria killings.
16) The Old silent
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
425 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn, amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes to he could perform one as he drives his impossible Aunt Agatha to the Old Swan in Harrogate. Caught up in a triple murder, Jury would go to any lengths to help Nell Healey, the lovely widow of one of the victims. But Nell Healey remains silent...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Struggling with guilt three months after his lover's tragic auto accident, Richard Jury becomes deeply suspicious when he is requested for a murder case out of his jurisdiction involving a shy local librarian who is also recognized as a posh city escort.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1984], c1982
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
468 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.
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