Martha Grimes's Richard Jury
4 total works
Chief Inspector Michael Haggerty asks Richard Jury to prove brewing magnate Oliver Tynedale's granddaughter is an impostor. Excavation of Tynedale's bombed London pub, the Blue Last, has turned up two skeletons - was the child found his real granddaughter? Meanwhile Melrose Plant reluctantly poses as an under gardener to investigate the nanny who purportedly saved the baby's life.
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series -- now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant....
While flat on his back in a hospital bed, sleuth Richard Jury overhears a story that provokes his next murder investigation.