The Grave Maurice - Hardcover

Martha Grimes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670030457 ISBN 13: 9780670030453

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2002

Synopsis

In her follow-up to the best-selling novel The Blue Last, the author revisits sleuth Richard Jury, who is lying flat on his back recovering in a hospital bed but nevertheless is capable of overhearing a story that will start his next murder investigation. 125,000 first printing.

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Review:

In this, the 18th outing in Martha Grimes's popular series featuring Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury and his aristocrat pal Melrose Plant, Jury, recuperating from a near-fatal shooting (The Blue Last) hears about the two-year-old abduction of his doctor's talented young daughter, Nell Ryder, who disappeared from her grandfather's stud farm, along with a champion thoroughbred horse. Pursuing the stalled investigation when he's released from the hospital, Jury stumbles on a complicated scheme involving murder, insurance fraud, and a scheme to replicate a popular menopause drug derived from the urine of pregnant mares. As readers of this popular series know, while there's a mystery at the heart of every Jury novel, the real payoff is in Grimes's lucent prose, wit, and complex characterizations. Fans of British mystery writer Dick Francis, who's made the world of thoroughbreds his own turf, will find this a delightful diversion, particularly since Francis recently announced his retirement from the genre. --Jane Adams

About the Author:

Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of seventeen Richard Jury mysteries and also of the acclaimed fiction Cold Flat Junction, Hotel Paradise, The End of the Pier, and The Train Now Departing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0670030457
• ISBN 13: 9780670030453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384