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Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Summary: Escaping into the nearby mountains from the mysterious man who had abducted her, a young amnesiac joins forces with fourteen-year-old Mary Dark Hope to find and confront the evil man she calls "Daddy"--before he can find her first.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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Summary: Presents two novellas, including "Hotel Paradise," an exploration of the emotional isolation and identity quest of adolescence, and "The Train Now Departing," in which the female protagonist is embroiled in darkness by the man in her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Summary: Declan Scott stood inside the room looking at Jury as if he were one more disapotmentment in a long list of them Police, private investigators-all had failed to finf the child Flora. Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwell police takes this failure especially hard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: "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...
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Summary: While sitting in a London pub Richard Jury hears a story told by Harry Johnson about the disappearance of a good friend's wife and son (and dog). The vanished woman's husband excels in the esoteric subject of quantum mechanics, could this explain the disappearance? The dog did come back but how and from where?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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Summary: As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2004
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Summary: Scotland Yard superintendent, Richard Jury investigates the murder of wealthy bachelor Billy Maples in a shady London motel. He discovers connections between the murder and the distant past through Maples' grandfather, who served as one of Britain's top code breakers during WWII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1993
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Summary: Inspector Richard Jury and Melrose Plant uncover dark secrets from the past when they investigate the deaths of two strangers at two different English inns in Long Piddleton where the village's most distinguished citizens become the prime suspects. Reprint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Onyx 2003
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Summary: Jury investigates the death of a young escort who has been murdered behind a local pub. The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Summary: Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: Cindy Sella struggles with writer's block and a lawsuit by her unscrupulous former agent, L. Bass Hess, who is targeted by bumbling hitmen Candy and Karl's zany efforts to drive him out of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014