Martha Grimes is a American author. She splits her time between homes in Washington DC and Santa Fe, New Mexico. An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Grimes is best known for her Richard Jury mysteries, a series of novels featuring Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who gave up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub. Her page turning, character driven, relatively tame tales fall in to the mystery subdivision of "cozies." She has also published several other novels, and books of short stories and poetry. Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... New Scotland Yard, London New Scotland Yard, often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). ... -1... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...

List of Inspector Jury Mystery Novels

• The Man With a Load of Mischief (1981)
• The Old Fox Deceiv'd (1982)
• The Anodyne Necklace (1983)
• The Dirty Duck (1984)
• The Jerusalem Inn (1984)
• Deer Leap (1985)
• Help the Poor Struggler (1985)
• I Am the Only Running Footman (1986)
• The Five Bells and Bladebone (1987)
• The Old Silent (1989)
• The Old Contemptibles (1991)
• The Case Has Altered (1993)
• The Horse You Came In On (1996)
• Rainbow's End (1995)
• The Stargazey (1998)
• The Lamorna Wink (1999)
• The Blue Last (2001)
• The Grave Maurice (2002)
• The Winds of Change (2004)
• The Old Wine Shades (2006)

External links

• Martha Grimes' official Web site