Inhalt: Sex and Grimes. Niemand mordet britischer Superintendent Richard Jury von der Londoner Metropolitan Police ist wenig erbaut, als er zu einem Tatort gerufen wird, der eigentlich gar nicht in seinem Zuständigkeitsbereich liegt: In dem kleinen Städtchen Chesham wurde eine junge Frau in einem Designerkleid und mit erlesenen Jimmy-Choo-Sandalen an den Füßen ermordet. Es gibt keine Zeugen ? außer vielleicht einer schwarzen Katze, doch die schweigt sich aus und verschwindet schließlich ganz. Kurz darauf geschehen zwei weitere Morde. Und auch diese Toten tragen Designerkleider und -schuhe. Welche Verbindung besteht zwischen den Opfern? Umfang: 343 S. ISBN: 978-3-641-06040-4
Inhalt: Vor zwei Jahren verschwand in der ländlichen Idylle von Cambridgeshire, dem Mekka des englischen Reitsports, unter mysteriösen Umständen die 15-jährige Nell Ryder. Von ihr und ihrem kostbaren Pferd fehlt seither jede Spur, und die Vermutung liegt nahe, dass das Mädchen von dem Gestüt ihres Großvaters entführt wurde. Merkwürdigerweise tauchte aber nie ein Erpresserbrief auf, und so liegt Nells weiteres Schicksal völlig im Dunklen. Nur ihr Vater Roger ist überzeugt, dass seine Tochter noch am Leben ist. Inspektor Jury, der durch Zufall von den Ereignissen erfährt, beginnt sich für den Fall zu interessieren. Und schnell finden er und sein Freund Melrose Plant heraus, dass es in der hoch angesehenen Familie Ryder einige Ungereimtheiten gibt. Doch welche Abgründe dort wirklich lauern, wird ihnen erst klar, als man auf dem Ryder'schen Gestüt die Leiche einer unbekannten Frau entdeckt. Ein neuer Fall für Inspektor Jury - eine Reise ins dunkle Herz der gehobenen britischen Gesellschaft. Umfang: 410 S. ISBN: 978-3-641-02362-1
Inhalt: 'Grimes's love of the offbeat, the whimsical and the absurd makes [the Richard Jury series] utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels.' (Washington Post) Billy Maples, former patron of London's finest art galleries and current tenant of Lamb House in Rye - the late Henry James's residence - is found murdered in an upmarket hotel in London. Richard Jury, Scotland Yard's finest, finds himself faced with yet another perplexing investigation. As Jury delves deeper into the fragments of the life Maples left behind, he finds himself entangled in a web of conflicting stories and false leads. Having enlisted the help of his faithful friend Melrose Plant, Jury must contend with both the case's lead detective, Lu Aguilar, and the surprise appearance of Maples's mysterious young nephew in order to crack the case. ISBN: 978-1-61185-923-2
Inhalt: Fortsetzung von "All die schönen Toten". Inspector Jury wird gebeten, sich mit dem Tod von Tess Williamson zu beschäftigen - der liegt 17 Jahre zurück; ihr Mann ist überzeugt, dass sie ermordet wurde. Kann Jury den Fall nach so langer Zeit noch klären? Schlagworte:Krimi Systematik: Roman Umfang: 413 S Standort: GRIM Krimi ISBN: 978-3-442-31401-0
Inhalt: Ein tödliches »Hund- und Mausspiel«, meisterlich inszeniert.Als Inspektor Jury eines Abends im Pub von einem äußerst redseligen Fremden angesprochen wird, will er eigentlich nur eines: In Ruhe ein Glas Wein trinken. Daraus wird jedoch nichts, denn die Geschichte, die dieser Mann namens Harry Johnson zu erzählen hat, zieht Jury sofort in ihren Bann. Johnson erzählt nämlich von seinem Freund Hugh Gault, dessen Frau, Kind und Hund ein Jahr zuvor auf mysteriöse Weise in der ländlichen Idylle Surreys verschwunden waren. Jury kann nicht anders und schaltet sich in die Ermittlungen ein. Keine Sekunde zu spät, wie sich herausstellt: Denn als Jury nicht nur mit Hugh Gault, sondern auch mit dessen tot geglaubter Ehefrau zusammentrifft, zählt er bereits eine Leiche zuviel und zwei Personen zu wenig im Umkreis von Harry Johnson ?Ein Fest für alle Fans von Martha Grimes: wunderbar britisch, meisterhaft psychologisch und herrlich humorvoll. Umfang: 420 Min. ISBN: 978-3-8371-7473-1
Inhalt: Der Polizist Brian Macalvie wird an den Strand einer kleinen Insel in Cornwall gerufen. Eine französische Touristin liegt erschossen im Sand ? und die einzigen Spuren in der Nähe gehören den beiden kleinen Mädchen, die sie gefunden haben. Macalvie ist ratlos und beschließt, Richard Jury um Hilfe zu bitten. Dieser macht derweil Bekanntschaft mit einer Legende: Der ehemalige Detective Tom Brownell ist berühmt dafür, jeden Fall lösen zu können. Als kurz darauf zwei weitere Morde geschehen, beginnen die drei Ermittler fieberhaft nach einer Verbindung zwischen den Opfern zu suchen ... Umfang: 320 S. ISBN: 978-3-641-23912-1
Inhalt: From the confines of his hospital bed, Inspector Jury is seeking refuge from Nurse Hannibal's constant speculations about his chances of survival when his friend, and partner in crime (prevention), Melrose Plant, arrives with a distraction. It's a story he overheard a young woman telling in The Grave Maurice about a girl named Nell Ryder - granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire who has been missing for more than a year. More interestingly though, she is the daughter of Jury's surgeon. In the wake of this discovery, a woman is found dead on the Ryders' farm - a stranger to the Ryders, but not to Plant. She is the woman he overheard in The Grave Maurice. Together with Jury, Nell's family, and the Cambridgeshire police, Plant embarks on a search to find Nell and bring her home. But is there more to their mission than just restoring a fifteen-year-old girl to her family? ISBN: 978-1-61185-920-1
Inhalt: In the new mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series, Martha Grimes brings London's finest on a double-homicide case that involves Kenyan art, rare gems, astrophysics and a long-fermented act of revenge. 'Read any one [of her novels] and you'll want to read them all.' - Chicago Tribune Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theatre, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand - a man who shot Robbie's previous pair of customers point-blank in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the killer eventually escapes to Nairobi with ten-year-old Patty Haigh - one of a crew of stray kids who serve as the cabbies' eyes and ears at Heathrow and Waterloo - in pursuit, superintendent Richard Jury comes across the double-homicide in the Saturday paper. Two days previously, Jury had met and instantly connected with one of the victims, a professor of astrophysics at Columbia and an expert gambler. Jury considers the murder a personal affront and is soon contending with a case that takes unexpected turns into Tanzanian gem mines, a closed casino in Reno, and a pub that only London's black cabbies, those who have 'the knowledge,' can find. ISBN: 978-1-61185-936-2
Inhalt: Two pubs. Two murders. One chocolate-box village convinced of its own perfection - until now. Long Piddleton is an unlikely setting for a crime, and yet it's the scene of two. With one dead body upended in a keg of beer at The Man with a Load of Mischief, and another swinging from the sign above the Jack and Hammer, tensions are high, and Scotland Yard's Richard Jury is called in to calm the waters. On arrival, Jury finds himself confronted by a community spooked by the idea that the murderer could be amongst them. That is, apart from Melrose Plant - the eighth Earl of Caverness and a keen observer of human nature whose astute eye directs Jury's investigation straight into the heart of the village, leaving the community questioning everything they ever thought they knew and trusted. ISBN: 978-1-61185-918-8
Inhalt: In Rackmoor, a Yorkshire fishing village, the twelfth night of Christmas comes to a dramatic and disturbing end when the corpse of a young woman is discovered. Once again, Inspector Jury's assistance is required. However, Jury finds himself struggling at the first hurdle - the girl's identity - and learns that, before he can grapple with the village's future, and even its present, he must first face confront its past which turns out to be a tangled maze of unrequited loves, unrevenged wrongs, and even undiscovered murders. Who was this girl? Was she Gemma Temple, an impostor, or was she really Dillys March, Colonel Titus Crael's long-lost ward, returning after eight years to the Colonel's country seat to claim a share of his fortune? And who could possibly want her dead...? ISBN: 978-1-61185-919-5
Inhalt: When the body of a Frenchwoman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police, is called in. With the only visible footprints belonging to the two girls who found her, who could have killed this mysterious tourist? While Macalvie stands stumped in the Isles of Scilly, Inspector Richard Jury - twenty miles away on Land's End - is at the Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook. Except one. In the weeks following the unexplained death of the tourist, two other murders are called in to Macalvie and Jury's teams: first, a man is found dead on a Northamptonshire estate, then a cleaner turns up murdered at Exeter Cathedral. When Macalvie and Jury decide to consult Brownell, the retired detective insists that the three murders, though very different in execution, are connected. As the trio set out to solve this puzzle, Jury and Macalvie hope that this doesn't turn out to be Brownell's second ever miss. Written with Grimes's signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, The Old Success is prime fare from 'one of the most fascinating mystery writers today' (Houston Chronicle). ISBN: 978-1-61185-907-2
Inhalt: Over the course of three nights, Harry - a stranger who sits down next to Jury one night in a London pub - spins a complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife, son and dog disappeared over nine-months ago during a house viewing in Surrey. There has been no trace of them and no clue as to what happened. But the dog has come back. Dumbfounded, Jury wonders if Harry Johnson is just winding him up. Or did it really happen? When Jury investigates, all seems to be just as Harry described it. Until he finds the body... ISBN: 978-1-61185-922-5
Inhalt: When an unidentified five-year-old girl is shot on a grimy street in London, Jury knows this will be one of the hardest investigations of his career. He is joined by his colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the paedophile unit of New Scotland Yard, who suspects Viktor Baumann, owner of an iniquitous house on the same street - an operation Blakeley has been long trying to shut down. Meanwhile, at Angel Gate, where Jury's trusty sidekick, Melrose Plant, is now a gardener, an unidentified woman has been murdered in the grounds of Declan Scott's estate. First on the scene is commander of the Devon and Cornwall police, Brian Macalvie. Three years earlier, Declan Scott's four-year-old stepdaughter, Flora, was abducted and shortly after her disappearance, her mother died too, leaving Declan bereft. Together Jury, Macalvie, Blakeley and Plant rake over the past and the present and find that all sign posts point to the guilt of Viktor Baumann, who happens to be Flora's father. But when no one in this case is exactly who they seem, how can Jury be sure? ISBN: 978-1-61185-921-8
Inhalt: Taxifahrer Robbie Parsons muss mit ansehen, wie seine Fahrgäste David und Rebecca vor einem Londoner Club erschossen werden. Dann springt der Mörder ins Taxi, steigt an Waterloo Station aus und verschwindet. Inspektor Jury ist erschüttert, er kannte den sympathischen David. Richard Jurys 24. Fall. Schlagworte:Krimi Systematik: Roman Umfang: 508 Seiten Standort: GRIM Krimi ISBN: 978-3-442-31513-0
Programm Findus Internet-OPAC findus.pl V20.236/8 auf Server windhund2.findus-internet-opac.de,
letztes Datenbankupdate: 18.05.2024, 13:13 Uhr. 6.571 Zugriffe im Mai 2024. Insgesamt 1.502.595 Zugriffe seit Mai 2001
Mobil - Impressum - Datenschutz - CO2-Neutral
