I Am the Only Running Footman

I Am the Only Running Footman

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1476732922

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The Scotland Yard detective investigates an elusive pair of murders in this “intriguing, appealing” entry in the New York Times–bestselling series (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running Footman, near Berkeley Square in London’s fashionable Mayfair District. Devon policeman Brian Macalvie believes the two murders are connected. And thus, detective Richard Jury is drawn into the so-called Porphyria killings. From the streets of London to the village of Somers Abbas, Jury and Macalvie are joined by the stolid if hypochondriac Sergeant Wiggins and the reluctant Melrose Plant. They meet in another pub, the Mortal Man, and, amidst the clatter and cry of the Warboys family, they ponder a labyrinthine set of clues.


I Am the Only Running Footman

I Am the Only Running Footman

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher:

Published: 1987-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780747231035

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Sheila Broome died in the wintry isolation of the Devon countryside. Ivy Childess was strangled in the heart of London's Mayfair. Devon's stubborn Divisional Police Commander is convinced both killings are the work of one man.


The Five Bells and Bladebone

The Five Bells and Bladebone

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1476732930

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A body in a bureau sends the Scotland Yard detective on a vexing investigation in this “absorbing and stylishly crafty” mystery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: “I bought the desk, not the body, send it back.” But the dead body of Simon Lean presents more pressing concerns. Who, for example, would want to kill the greedy nephew of the wealthy Lady Summerston? Leave it to Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard to suggest a connection to the murder of brassy Limehouse lady named Sadie Driver, found dead near Wapping Old Stairs . . . if that stone-cold body on the slipway is really Sadie. Not even her brother, Tommy, on a visit from Gravesend, can swear to it.


The Man with a Load of Mischief

The Man with a Load of Mischief

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1476732949

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From bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series. Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack and Hammer. Suddenly Long Piddleton had good reason to be wary of everyone! Its cozy pubs and inns with their polished pewter and blazing hearths had become scenes of the most bizarre crimes. Who were the victims? And who was the murderer? A stranger? A maniac? Or the disarmingly friendly man next door?


Help the Poor Struggler

Help the Poor Struggler

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1476732884

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Book seven of the suspenseful Richard Jury Mystery series! Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalvie…with clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.


The Old Wine Shades

The Old Wine Shades

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher: Viking Adult

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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"Over three successive nights, Harry spins out this story of a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day when they were in Surrey. No trace, no clue, no lead as to what happened."--Jacket.


The Anodyne Necklace

The Anodyne Necklace

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 147673285X

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The third in the bestselling Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes. A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady’s mansion. But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace. There, drinks all around loosened enough tongues to link a London mugging with the Littlebourne murder and a treasure map that would chart the way to yet another chilling crime.


Send Bygraves

Send Bygraves

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 147673299X

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In Send Bygraves, Martha Grimes has given us her most fascinating book, a dramatic mystery poem that uses the conventions of the traditional British mystery to explore the very nature of crime, the criminal, and the criminal investigator. Illustrated with thirty-five line drawings by acclaimed artist Devis Grebu, it is an elegant, darkly humorous work—a tour de force of chilling wit and brilliant literary imagination.


I Am the Only Running Footman

I Am the Only Running Footman

Author: Martha Grimes

Publisher:

Published: 1992-12-06

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780517092170

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Two young women are strangled with their own scarves--one in Devon and the other outside a Mayfair pub called I Am the Only Running Footman. Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury teams up with Devon's local division commander to solve the murders. With nothing to tie the women together except their scarves, Jury pursues his only suspect. Original. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds

Author: Joe Abercrombie

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 0316341916

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The New York Times bestselling finale to the Age of Madness trilogyfinds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything. Chaos. Fury. Destruction. The Great Change is upon us . . . Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds. With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch. And in the bloody North, Rikke and her fragile Protectorate are running out of allies . . . while Black Calder gathers his forces and plots his vengeance. The banks have fallen, the sun of the Union has been torn down, and in the darkness behind the scenes, the threads of the Weaver's ruthless plan are slowly being drawn together . . . "No one writes with the seismic scope or primal intensity of Joe Abercrombie." —Pierce Brown For more from Joe Abercrombie, check out: The Age of Madness A Little Hatred The Trouble With Peace The Wisdom of Crowds The First Law Trilogy The Blade Itself Before They Are Hanged Last Argument of Kings Best Served Cold The Heroes Red Country The Shattered Sea Trilogy Half a King Half a World Half a War