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Martha Grimes (born 1931) is an American writer of detective fiction. She is best known for a series featuring Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, and Melrose Plant, an aristocrat turned amateur sleuth. Early life and education Martha Grimes was born in 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to William Dermit Grimes, Pittsburgh's city solicitor, and June Dunnington, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland, where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood.She earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland and did postgraduate work at the University of Iowa. Career Grimes has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montgomery College (Takoma Park).Grimes initially became 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 Emma Graham quartet of novels beginning with Hotel Paradise is set in an atmospheric aging lake resort in western Maryland, and delves into mysteries of past secrets and human nature. The background of the series draws from the experiences that she enjoyed while spending summers at her mother's hotel in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. One of the characters, Mr. Britten, is drawn on Britten Leo Martin Sr., who then ran Martin's Store, which he owned with his father and brother. Martin's Store is accessible by a short walkway from the Mountain Lake Hotel, the site of the former hotel, which was torn down in 1967.Biting the Moon (1999) was the first of two books featuring young teenagers who fight animal abuse. Recognition In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace. In 2012, Grimes was named Grand Master by the Edgar Awards Mystery Writers of America. Personal life Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a vegetarian.Grimes has donated two thirds of her royalties from Biting the Moon to animal-protection organizations. Works Richard Jury series (with Melrose Plant) The Man With a Load of Mischief (Boston: Little, Brown, 1981) The Old Fox Deceiv'd (Boston: Little, Brown, 1982) The Anodyne Necklace (Boston: Little, Brown, 1983) The Dirty Duck (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984) Jerusalem Inn (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984) Help the Poor Struggler (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985) The Deer Leap (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985) I Am the Only Running Footman (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986) The Five Bells and Bladebone (Boston: Little, Brown, 1987) The Old Silent (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989) The Old Contemptibles (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991) The Horse You Came In On (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) Rainbow's End (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) The Case Has Altered (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) The Stargazey (New York: Holt, 1998) The Lamorna Wink (New York: Viking/Penguin, 1999) The Blue Last (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2001) The Grave Maurice (New York: Viking Penguin, 2002) The Winds of Change (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2004) The Old Wine Shades (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2006) Dust (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2007) The Black Cat (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2010) Vertigo 42 (New York: Scribner, 2014) The Knowledge (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018) The Old Success (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019)The Man With a Load of Mischief, Help the Poor Struggler and The Deer Leap were filmed on behalf of the German and Austrian broadcasters ZDF and ORF under the title Der Tote im Pub (The Dead Man in the Pub) (2013), Mord im Nebel (Murder in the Fog) (2015) and Inspektor Jury spielt Katz und Maus (Inspector Jury plays Cat-and-Mouse) (2017). Fritz Karl as Jury, Götz Schubert as Plant and Katharina Thalbach as "Lady" Agatha Ardry. Andi Oliver series Biting the Moon (New York: Holt, 1999) Dakota (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2008)featuring Maud Chadwick (who is also a character in the Emma Graham Series) The End of the Pier (Ballantine Books, 1993)Emma Graham series Hotel Paradise (Knopf, 1996) Cold Flat Junction (2000) Belle Ruin (2005) Fadeaway Girl (2011)Novels, Short Stories & Poetry Send Bygraves (Putnam, 1990) The Train Now Departing (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2001) Foul Matter (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2003) The Way of All Fish (Simon and Schuster, 2014)Memoirs Double Double: A Memoir of Alcoholism with Ken Grimes (Scribner, 2016)References Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2006. External links Martha Grimes' official Web site Ryan, Ellen. "Martha Grimes: Woman of Mystery", Washingtonian, August 1, 2008.. Discover the Martha Grimes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Martha Grimes books.

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  • The End of the Pier synopsis, comments

    The End of the Pier

    Martha Grimes

    The setting: a small, sleepy American town where secrets are almost impossible to keep. The center of town life: the Rainbow Cafe where Maud Chadwick works as a waitress, hiding be...

  • Die Toten vom Dartmoor synopsis, comments

    Die Toten vom Dartmoor

    Paul Marten

    Bei der Verlegung eines Sarges auf einem Friedhof im Dartmoor werden zwei Kinderskelette gefunden. Es handelt sich um die vor zwanzig Jahren verschwundenen Schwestern Sophie und Ch...

  • Double Double synopsis, comments

    Double Double

    Martha Grimes

    “A thoughtful twist on the recovery memoir” (O, The Oprah Magazine) that explains the different ways bestselling author Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, recognized and overca...

  • Mord in Honeychurch Hall synopsis, comments

    Mord in Honeychurch Hall

    Hannah Dennison & Corinna Wieja

    Ein tödliches FamiliengeheimnisModeratorin Kat Stanford will mit ihrer Mutter ein Antiquitätengeschäft eröffnen, als diese überraschend einen einsamen alten Landsitz kauft. Honeych...

  • The Man with a Load of Mischief synopsis, comments

    The Man with a Load of Mischief

    Martha Grimes

    From bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series. Long Piddleton had always be...

  • Der Kriminalist synopsis, comments

    Der Kriminalist

    Tim Sullivan

    Wer ist der erdrosselte Obdachlose, dessen Leiche in den Clifton Downs bei Bristol gefunden wird, und warum musste er sterben?DS George Cross kann mit sozialen Konventionen nichts ...

  • Nur der Tod ist ohne Makel synopsis, comments

    Nur der Tod ist ohne Makel

    Ann Granger & Axel Merz

    Auftakt der CosyCrimeReihe mit der ungewöhnlichen Ermittlerin Fran Varady Die Sterne stehen nicht günstig für die angehende Schauspielerin Fran Varady: kein Job, das Geld ist knapp...

  • Help the Poor Struggler synopsis, comments

    Help the Poor Struggler

    Martha Grimes

    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 hottempered...

  • Die dunklen Wasser von Exeter synopsis, comments

    Die dunklen Wasser von Exeter

    Paul Marten

    Als DCI Craig McPherson nachts durch die Straßen Exeters streift, findet er die Leiche eines bekannten und beliebten Bauunternehmers. Der Coroner stuft den Vorfall als Unfall ein, ...

  • The Case Has Altered synopsis, comments

    The Case Has Altered

    Martha Grimes

    The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly again...

  • The Anodyne Necklace synopsis, comments

    The Anodyne Necklace

    Martha Grimes

    The third in the bestselling Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes.A spinster whose passion was birdwatching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made th...

  • Der Kriminalist - Die Logik des Todes synopsis, comments

    Der Kriminalist - Die Logik des Todes

    Tim Sullivan

    Wer ist die Leiche, die auf einer Baustelle mitten in Bristol ausgegraben wird? – Der Einzige, der Antworten findet: DS Cross!Detective Sergeant George Cross hat unvergleichliche T...

  • The Horse You Came in On synopsis, comments

    The Horse You Came in On

    Martha Grimes

    The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sargeant Wiggins, Jury arr...

  • The Old Contemptibles synopsis, comments

    The Old Contemptibles

    Martha Grimes

    Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in Londo...

  • Jerusalem Inn synopsis, comments

    Jerusalem Inn

    Martha Grimes

    From the rough but colorful pub that provides the book’s title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphereor thwarted romanc...

  • The Way of All Fish synopsis, comments

    The Way of All Fish

    Martha Grimes

    An “absurdly amusing” (The New York Times Book Review) sequel to Martha Grimes’s bestselling novel, Foul Matter, this wicked satire of the publishing industry is “comic, caustic, a...

  • The Stargazey synopsis, comments

    The Stargazey

    Martha Grimes

    Saturday night. It was not a night to be spending alone, riding a bus. When he was a teenager at the comprehensive, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least ...

  • The Deer Leap synopsis, comments

    The Deer Leap

    Martha Grimes

    In her latest Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes us to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While t...

  • Biting the Moon synopsis, comments

    Biting the Moon

    Martha Grimes

    The girl’s hair was white below the scarf, now a scarf of snow, and there was a fine rime of ice on her eyebrows. Her mouth was so numb she couldn’t have spoken even if there had b...

  • Send Bygraves synopsis, comments

    Send Bygraves

    Martha Grimes

    In Send Bygraves, Martha Grimes has given us her most fascinating book, a dramatic mystery poem that uses the conventions of the traditional British mystery to explore the very nat...

  • The Old Fox Deceived synopsis, comments

    The Old Fox Deceived

    Martha Grimes

    It is a chilly and foggy Twelfth Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward piece of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that pr...