The Dirty Duck : a Richard Jury mystery

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Title:

The Dirty Duck : a Richard Jury mystery

Author:

Grimes, Martha, author.

Series:

Richard Jury ;

Series Number:

Summary:

The Dirty Duck is a pub in Shakespeare's beloved Stratford, and in this pub Miss Gwendolyn Bracegirdle of Sarasota, Florida, fresh from a performance of As You Like It, takes her last drink. A few minutes later she is slashed ear to ear, the only clue: two lines from an unknown poem printed across a theater program. The razor-happy murderer, it seems is stalking a group of rich American tourists. And Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, just passing through Stratford for a glimpse of the intriguing Lady Kennington, instead takes a crash course in the bloodier side of Elizabethan verse.

Physical Description:

303 p. ; 18 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Police -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

England -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Onyx Book,

Publication Date:

2004

ISBN:

9780451411396

Publication Information:

New York : Onyx Book, 2004.

Call Number:

GRIMES

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

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Summary

Superintendent Richard Jury has been wrong before. But when stating that "nothing ever happens in Stratford," he never imagined just how wrong he could be. Besides the stage murders committed nightly at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a real one has been performed not far from a popular pub known as The Dirty Duck.

Author Notes

Martha Grimes was born on May 2, 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Maryland.

The idea for Martha Grimes' first British detective novel, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1981), was inspired by the name of a British pub she noticed while leafing through a travel book. A longtime Anglophile, she has continued to use a British pub as both the title and part of the setting in each subsequent novel in the series which features Scotland Yard Detective Richard Jury, his assistant, Melrose Plant, and Plant's interfering Aunt Agatha. The Anodyne Necklace (1983) won her the Nero Wolfe Award. Her other works include The Stargazey, The Case Has Been Altered, The End of the Pier, Biting the Moon, and Dust. Her title, Vertigo 42, made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014.

(Bowker Author Biography)