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The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury #3)
by
Martha Grimes (Goodreads Author)
Third in the bestselling series from "one of the established masters of the genre" (Newsweek). Scotland Yard's Richard Jury solves a bizarre murder in an even stranger town-and follows a treasure map to yet another chilling crime...
Mass Market Paperback, 310 pages
Published
January 6th 2004
by Onyx
(first published 1983)
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3rd in the Richard Jury series.[return][return]Recently promoted to superintendent over the ineffectual obstructiveness of Chief Superintendent Racer, Richard Jury is once again called out of rota by the malicious Racer and sent to Littlebourne to investigate a gruesome murder/mutilation.[return][return]A young woman has been murdered at night in Horndean Wood and the fingers of one hand cut off. A stranger to Littlebourne, no one can understand what she was doing at that time in that place. See...more
#3 Supt. Jury/Melrose Plant, London, and the village of Littlebourne; cosy police procedural. A young musician is bludgeoned into coma while playing on the platform of a Tube station, a secretary with too much makeup is found dead in the woods with her fingers cut off, and a rare emerald necklace has gone missing. Superintendent Jury not only has to tie all the bits together, he must keep a small girl from being added to the disasters list - she knows something valuable and isn’t going to give i...more
In this 3rd Richard Jury mystery, Superintendent Jury was almost away for a weekend in Northamptonshire when Chief Superintendent Racer preempts his vacation to send him to Littlebourne to investigate a murder/mutilation (fingers cut off) of a secretary/typist in Horndean Wood. During the investigation he also uncovers several perplexing things - that a young musician, Katie O'Brien, is in a coma after being hit in the head while playing her violin in a tube station, a rare emerald Egyptian neck...more
Really like the Richard Jury/Melrose Plant combination.
This one has Jury called out because a finger without a body has been found initially. All happening in a quaint village where nothing extraordinary happens, but now there is a body, a jewelry robbery, poison pen letters, and a young inhabitant attacked in the London tube. Jury arrives to put all these together. He calls on Melrose Plant for some help. Reading about Melrose's dealings with young horse-lover Emily, who would give any adult a...more
This one has Jury called out because a finger without a body has been found initially. All happening in a quaint village where nothing extraordinary happens, but now there is a body, a jewelry robbery, poison pen letters, and a young inhabitant attacked in the London tube. Jury arrives to put all these together. He calls on Melrose Plant for some help. Reading about Melrose's dealings with young horse-lover Emily, who would give any adult a...more
This book was lent to me by a neighbor, who says she has read all of MG’s books. I do not share her enthusiasm. I guess I am a poor reader. Ms. Grimes confused me with all of her characters – I was not able to keep them straight. So when the identity of the killer was revealed, it did not have much impact on me because I couldn’t remember who Peter Gere was. Nor was I caring much who it was, due to my lack of identification of any of them (except, of course, Richard Jury himself). I think it was...more
I am re-reading all the Martha Grimes (it's been so long that I don't remember much about them any more). This is the 3rd in the series, but I believe it is the first one of hers I ever read. In this one, we meet the Cripps family of Catchcoach Street. One of the children is called "Friendly", and when he waves 'good-bye' it isn't his hand he's waving (clue: his pa is "Ash the Flash). It's interesting to follow the story from the village of Littlebourne to the mean streets of London, and (as alw...more
Ce livre est mon premier ouvrage de Martha Grimes, c’est le tome 3 de la série des enquêtes menées par le duo Richard Jury et Melrose Plant. Le fait de ne pas avoir lu les 2 ouvrages précédents ne m’a pas manqué car la vie des deux héros en dehors de l’enquête est assez peu évoquée. L’histoire est surtout tournée autour des meurtres et des mystères à élucider.
J’ai bien apprécié le style du livre, il m’a fait penser au livre Le lieu du crime d’Elizabeth George (et donc un peu à certains ouvrages...more
J’ai bien apprécié le style du livre, il m’a fait penser au livre Le lieu du crime d’Elizabeth George (et donc un peu à certains ouvrages...more
Une violoniste est sauvagement assassinée dans le métro de Londres.
Elle était originaire d'un village répondant au nom charmant de Littlebourne.
Or un chien vient de découvrir une drôle de friandise dans le bois voisin : un doigt humain !
Scotland Yard ne dispose que d'un seul limier capable d'établir un lien entre ces deux affaires : le commissaire Richard jury.
Et comme l'énigme est d'une opacité inhabituelle, il fait appel à son ami Melrose Plant, détective amateur.
Ensemble, ils vont arpent...more
Elle était originaire d'un village répondant au nom charmant de Littlebourne.
Or un chien vient de découvrir une drôle de friandise dans le bois voisin : un doigt humain !
Scotland Yard ne dispose que d'un seul limier capable d'établir un lien entre ces deux affaires : le commissaire Richard jury.
Et comme l'énigme est d'une opacité inhabituelle, il fait appel à son ami Melrose Plant, détective amateur.
Ensemble, ils vont arpent...more
Richard Jury, Sgt. Wiggins, and Melrose Plant are back in this installment of Martha Grimes' series. A village girl lies in a coma after a brutal attack, another girl is murdered in Hordean Woods, and a valuable emerald necklace is missing. Once again the triumvirate puts the pieces of the puzzle together with the help of Emily, a resourceful village child.
What a disappointment. The same sorry assortment of snobby, obnoxious adults and disturbingly aware young children that appeared in her other books. There has been no development in the characters of Melrose Plant and Richard Jury. I found it terribly dull and doubt I will read any more in the series.
An American writer created a perfect English crime. Wow! The little town in which the story is set and all its particular figures (first of all the Bodenheim family) are really entertaining. It seems a modern Agatha Christie's romance, even though the ending is too much surprising and there were no clues to get it. The ironic style of the writer is fantastic. An excellent book.
I think this is the third in the Richard Jury series.
These mysteries are timeless.
Jury is sent to the small village of Littlebourne after a young woman is found murdered and another was attacked and now lies comatose. Wiggins and Plant join Jury in his investigation.
A strange game , a stolen emerald, a young girl that knows too much, strange letters written in crayon, and another set of odd characters have Jury perplexed, but not for long.
This was a dark mystery that explores greed and it's hig...more
These mysteries are timeless.
Jury is sent to the small village of Littlebourne after a young woman is found murdered and another was attacked and now lies comatose. Wiggins and Plant join Jury in his investigation.
A strange game , a stolen emerald, a young girl that knows too much, strange letters written in crayon, and another set of odd characters have Jury perplexed, but not for long.
This was a dark mystery that explores greed and it's hig...more
Bought this one a long time ago when I was stuck somewhere with nothing to read. Then something else came up, and I never read it!! Too bad! Another in the British detective genre, but with a very pleasant sense of humor and the comic, the mystery was good and I had a few laughs too!
A bit better than the first. Getting to like Jury more (as I suspected I might) Some good suspense. Still not loving her writing style, but it is better than the first (again, as I suspected).
Good to have another mystery author to like enough to work through her books. No hurry, though...
Good to have another mystery author to like enough to work through her books. No hurry, though...
An average Jury mystery. On the positive side, no Agatha (good), Jury got promoted, Wiggins is still adorable. On the average side, the cute, adorable kid wasn't as effective this time, Emily was mostly annoying to my taste. The secondary characters were not of the usual quality Grimes in known for. The plot is interesting but slow to unravel. A weak 3 stars.
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Not as good as the first two Jury novels--the ending doesn't make as much sense and the killer's identity really comes from nowhere. I actually didn't recognize his/her name (not going to spoil it for you!) and had to go back and reread so I could understand.
I love a good British detective and this introduction to Richard Jury did not disappoint. If you like Agatha Christie or shows such as Foyle's War, Lewis, etc, then you will probably enjoy this series. I plan to start back at book 1 and work my way through.
A mystery loving friend of mine recommended this series to me ages ago, and it is still going, though Grimes is not writing as many as in the eighties. The characters of Jury and his friend Melrose Plant are fun to follow through their various cases and romances. This particular mystery has a London twist to the ending. Light reading, great for Anglophiles.
Martha Grimes is my new favorite cozy writer. I really like her characterizations. I fall in love more and more with Jury and Plant. I love the hypochondriac Wiggins. It is fun, quick, easy what more can you ask from a cozy mystery.
Series just keeps getting better and better. Emily Louise was as interesting in this book as Bertie was in the last one--both children who play pivotal roles in the story.
Well, becoming even more difficult to read mass market books. And this was unfortunately. #3 in Richard Jury so humor is known.
The Jury novels are largely reliably good murder mysteries at the higher level of the genre--and this is no exception
Enjoyed the story development between the main characters between each book. Mystery story is getting stronger.
Book #70 read in 2012
This was very slow moving. It didn't really pick up until the last third of the book and by then I wasn't sure I cared what happened.
This was very slow moving. It didn't really pick up until the last third of the book and by then I wasn't sure I cared what happened.
Jury and Plant have done it again (although truthfully, more Jury than Plant). Watch out for the Bodenheims - they're horrible!
It gave me the same feeling as reading the Agatha Christie mysteries. The criminal is someone completely unexpected and the climax arrives before you know it.
Love the British Cozy and Martha Grimes writes such entertaining ones.
A good read while watching a tropical depression! Fast and easy!
Mar 29, 2011
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have read all of the Richard Jury sreies and they are terriffic
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Martha Grimes is an American author of detective fiction.
She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montg...more
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She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montg...more
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