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Authors: Martha Grimes
The Old Contemptibles (40 page)
In Ashdown Dean, a little English village, animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents.
The Deer Leap
In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder.
I Am the Only Running Footman
A dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau.
The Five Bells and Bladebone
Jury is called to Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, Edgar Allen Poe, and a murderer.
The Horse You Came In On
Three women die of “natural causes” in London and the West Country, and Jury winds up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rainbow’s End
The Lincolnshire fenlands are the perfect setting for Richard Jury’s latest case, a mystifying double murder.
The Case Has Altered
Jury and Melrose Plant follow a complex case from the depths of London's East End to the heights of Mayfair's art scene.
The Stargazey
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