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Richard Jury mystery volume 10
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Feeling burned out, Jury makes an unplanned stopover in Yorkshire and books a room at a cozy inn call the Old Silent. Violence finds him anyway when he becomes the only witness to a murder. Though Nell Healey shot her husband in cold blood, Jury will go to any lengths to help her, including taking sick leave from Scotland Yard to investigate. Calling on his old friend Melrose Plant for help, he must break through Nell's reticence to untangle a web...
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Richard Jury mystery volume 11
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When the lady he had hoped to marry is murdered, Richard Jury becomes a suspect in the investigation and sends his friend, Melrose Plant, to Scotland to probe into the sordid history of the victim's family.
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Richard Jury mystery volume 14
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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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Richard Jury mystery volume 15
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A bleak Richard Jury takes an aimless ride on one of London's icons, the old double-decker bus, a number 14 traveling the Fulham Road. His attention is caught by a woman leaving a pub called the Stargazey. Her behavior intrigues him, as she leaves, reboards, and leaves the bus again at Fulham Palace Road. Jury follows her to the gates of Fulham Palace. There he stops. He wonders if the death in the Palace's walled garden could have been averted if...
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Richard Jury mystery volume 17
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Mickey Haggerty, an inspector with the City police, has asked for Richard Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once stood a pub called the Blue Last. Mickey believes a child who survived the bombing has posed for more than fifty years as a child who didn't. Mickey also has a murder to solve. Simon Croft, prosperous broker and son of the one-time owner of the Blue Last, is found shot...
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Richard Jury mystery volume 19
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The murder of an unidentified five-year-old girl in a shabby London street leads Superintendent Richard Jury to suspect well-known financier Viktor Baumann, owner of an iniquitous house on the same street that serves as the hub of a pedophilia ring. When a second unidentified murder victim--this time a woman is found in the gardens of Declan Scott's estate, Commander of the Devon and Cornwall Police, Brian Macalvie, thinks there is a connection. Three...
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Richard Jury mystery volume 21
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When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not sure what's more perplexing: the circumstances of the fellow's death, the conflicted stories of the man's past, or the motivations of the case's lead detective--the beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar. What Jury is sure of is that he's in over his head, both with the inscrutable and challenging Aguilar and the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic...
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Richard Jury mystery volume 20
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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.