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May 2, 1931 — —· 95 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · POLICE

Martha Grimes

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Martha Grimes is an American writer of detective fiction. Martha Grimes was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub. Her page-turning, character-driven tales fall into the mystery subdivision of "cozies." In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland. - wikipedia

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Still wearing his cabby's cap-he ought to put it in his act, this cap, because it looked so unlike what a magician would wear-Johnny was sitting at the gaming table palming cards.

— from The Lamorna Wink

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The Case has Altered

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Jury, helped by aristocratic amateur sleuth Melrose Plant, is determined to find out who is responsible for the murders of Dorcas Reese, a moody, unattractive housemaid, and Verna Dunn, an elegant lady of means.

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Rainbow's end

1975

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From the back cover: World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by "smart" contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about everywhere. Buildings look low rent -- unless you're wearing. Then, they look like whatever you want. Even he is different. He's seventy-five, but his treatment has made him look almost a teen. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the new Digital Age. As Gu tries to catch up with his future, a mysterious stranger draws him and other innocents into a conspiracy that could have disastrous consequences. Before he knows it, he's in so deep that even his high-ranking military son and daughter-in-law are clueless. His only hope -- the world's only hope -- is that his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri and her secret friend, Mr. Rabbit, might be able to keep the worst from happening....

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The Stargazey

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"Une jolie blonde en manteau de zibeline se livre à un étrange manège dans Fulham Road. Le commissaire Richard Jury lui emboîte le pas : il va être conduit à enquêter dans le milieu artistique londonien.

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