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Book Description
Why would a sniper shoot suburban physiotherapist Rachel James as she sips her morning coffee? Inspector Morse's hunt for answers kicks off with a tabloid journalist, winds through the strip clubs of Soho, then returns to Oxford, where two senior dons and their wives battle for a plum promotion. Then, on the personal front, Inspector Morse receives intimations of his own mortality.

And while Morse muses on life, he reveals his first name at last. . . .

About the Author
Colin Dexter lives in Oxford, England. He has twice won Britain's Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year--for The Wench Is Dead and The Way Through the Woods.

The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter

Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter

The Jewel That Was Ours by Colin Dexter

The Case has Altered by Martha Grimes.

Amazon.com

Richard Jury, the brooding Scotland Yard detective-hero of many of Martha Grimes's mysteries, is back in The Case Has Altered, but--as usual--his sidekick Melrose Plant steals the show. Set in the fens of Lincolnshire, Jury must investigate two murders in which his true love, Jenny Kennington, is a suspect. But while Jury deals with the evidence, Melrose uncovers the local color, interviewing everyone from uncommunicative pub owners to chatty cooks. Even murder seems a little less grim with Melrose Plant around.

The New York Times Book Review, Marilyn Stasio

Although some of these animated creations are purely decorative (Plant's endearingly awful Aunt Agatha among them), most play small but integral roles in the richly textured story. Like the fens, which appear so cold and dead in the distance, life reveals itself in the homely details.

From Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/97

``The worst things happened to Jury's women,'' muses his friend Melrose Plant all too accurately. The victim this time is Supt. Richard Jury's former lover Lady Jennifer Kennington, suspected first of shooting actress Verna Dunn, then two weeks later strangling Dorcas Reese, homely kitchen girl at Fengate, the residence of Verna's ex-husband Max Owen. Jury's first idea- -prying Plant loose from his litigious aunt's nuisance suit against inoffensive secondhand-shopkeeper Ada Crisp to send him undercover to Lincolnshire as the antiques appraiser who'll help evaluate Max's treasures--yields lots of data about Max, his understanding wife Grace, his sculptor nephew Jack Price, and their neighbors Major Linus Parker and Peter Emery, his blind groundskeeper. But despite the data, there are precious few conclusions. And when Jury confronts Jenny directly, she simply admits an undeniable motive for killing Verna and expands on the lies she's already told the police. So it's on to the courtroom, where procedural fireworks await. As always with Grimes (Hotel Paradise, 1996, etc.), the pace is leisurely, at times maddeningly so; yet the endless repetitions of the case's central questions--what was Dorcas so sorry she'd listened to and done? why did she tell her trusted intimates she was pregnant when she wasn't? why were the two murders committed with different weapons?--actually deepen their mystery instead of dispelling it. Even the farcical subplot--that nuisance lawsuit back home- -adds its counterweight to the Fen Country gloom to produce Grimes's best book in years. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes.

Synopsis

Lines from an unknown poem are the trademark of a brutal killer preying on a group of wealthy Americans visiting Stratford and bedeviling the investigation of Scotland Yard's Richard Jury.

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes.

From the Publisher

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 an 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 pass with a killing yet to come.
"A superior writer." --The New York Times Book Review
"A star in the mystery genre...An elegant writer and inventor of dazzling plots." --Publishers Weekly

The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes.

Synopsis

In this ninth Richard Jury novel, a beautiful antique offers more than its market value when dealer Marshall Trueblood unwittingly discovers a corpse stuffed inside the rosewood desk he has just haggled out of a wealthy estate owner. "(Grimes) best . . . as moving as it is entertaining . . . a laudable achievement."--USA Today. HC: Little, Brown.

The Horse You Came In On by Martha Grimes.

From Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/93

Is any mystery writer more generous than Grimes in spinning out subplots and a supporting cast? In bringing Scotland Yard's superintendent Richard Jury to America to investigate the murder of young Philip Calvert, who worked in Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation, she provides not only two other murders (Baltimore street person John- Joy and ambitious Johns Hopkins Ph.D. candidate Beverly Brown) that might be connected--and just how they're connected is the best surprise here--but also a newly discovered story that Brown insisted was by Edgar Allan Poe (yes, we get to read the whole thing); a minimalist novelist, Brown's teacher, who chains herself to her writing desk; Jury sidekick Melrose Plant's swooping excursion into early Baltimore genealogy (courtesy of a riotously misinformed cabbie); and much, much more. As in Jury's recent cases (The Old Contemptibles, 1990, etc.), the high-spirited feast of episodes, settings, and allusions--from Chatterton to Barry Levinson to a secondhand store called Nouveau Pauvre--is too sumptuous for Jury or his fans to digest fully. But if some readers will complain that Grimes has left a million loose ends, nobody will rise from this table still hungry. (First printing of 100,000) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Synopsis
British sleuth Richard Jury travels to Baltimore to deal with murder, larceny, a tangle of evidence, and a batch of suspicious characters--finding answers and refreshment in a unique drinking establishment called The Horse You Came In On. Reprint. NYT.
Synopsis
Mourning the death of his lover, Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury throws himself into a new case--involving three seemingly unrelated murders and a literary forgery in Baltimore, Maryland. (Mystery) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Old Contemptibles by Martha Grimes.

Synopsis

After entering into an affair with a troubled widow, Richard Jury becomes a suspect in a murder investigation and sends his friend, Melrose Plant, to Scotland to probe into the sordid history of the victim's family. Reprint. NYT.

The Old Silent by Martha Grimes.

Synopsis
While staying in a cozy Yorkshire inn, Inspector Richard Jury finds himself embroiled in a case of triple homicide and joins forces with his colleague Melrose Plant to stop the killing.

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes.

Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes.

From the Publisher

A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury--until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm, and a bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging holiday spirit. But the next time Jury saw her, she was cold--and dead. Melrose Plant. Jury's aristocratic sidekick wasn't faring much better. Snow bound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics, and idle-but-titled rich, he, too, encountered a lovely lady . . . or rather, stumbled over her corpse. What linked these two yuletide murders was a remote country pub where snooker, a Nativity scene, and an old secret would uncover a killer . . . or yet another death. "She is working in the great tradition . . . Good news for addicts--crime with style."
-- Mary Cantwell, Vogue.

"[She] gets our immediate attention . . . . She holds it, however, with something more than mere suspense." --The New Yorker

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes.

Synopsis
A severed finger found at the scene of a baffling murder in the village of Littlebourne leads local constables on what seems like a wild goose chase. But Richard Jury prefers to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, where drinks all around loosen tongues and provide clues galore.

Rainbow's End by Martha Grimes.

Synopsis
When three women die of "natural causes" in England, there appears to be no connection. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he's following his instincts to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest. From the acclaimed author of The Horse You Came in On HC: Knopf.