"Scotland Yard Inspector Richard Jury and his trusty partner Melrose Plant arrive in a tiny English seaside village to investigate the murder of a costumed woman who is linked to one of the most wealth and influential families in town."--Amazon.

New Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is convinced it's more than coincidence when two beautiful young women are found strangled to death with their own scarves -- one in Devon, the second outside a fashionable Mayfair pub. Both women were as strikingly similar in life as they were in death. Neither had enemies that Jury can find. Now, somewhere in the night, a killer is biding his time, beckoning Jury and Devon's local divisional commander,...

Taking a winter break in the Yorkshire moors and staying at The Old Silent Inn, Superintendent Richard Jury witnesses a most perplexing murder. Fascinated by the lovely widow of the victim, Jury is sufficiently intrigued to undertake his own unofficial and very unpopular investigation.

A case of plagiarism, a blind and deaf street-dweller and an engaging child who bears a strong resemblance to Scarlett O'Hara - these are just some of the elements of a complex puzzle detective Steve Jury and his team must piece together.

While Melrose Plant impersonates an antiques expert, Richard Jury investigates the scene of a baffling double murder in the Lincolnshire fens after the bodies of two local women turn up and Jenny Kennington, Jury's long-time flame, becomes the prime suspect in the crime.

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.

Nell Ryder, a fifteen-year-old girl, has been missing since her abduction nearly two years before. Nell is the granddaughter of the owner of Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, the heart of Britain's racing world. There has been no word from her kidnappers, no ransom demand, and her family has given up hope--except for Nell's stepbrother, Vernon Rice, a financial virtuoso who refuses to believe she's dead. The girl's father is Roger Ryder of the...

This is a joke, right? No, it isnt. . . . So do you want to hear the rest of it? Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as hes drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey. Theyve been missing for...

Three months have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt- ridden after his lover's tragic auto accident, and he is now more wary than ever. He is deeply suspicious when requested on a case far out of his jurisdiction in an outlying village where a young woman has been murdered behind the 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. Identifying...

"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied...