While flat on his back in a hospital bed, sleuth Richard Jury overhears a story that provokes his next murder investigation that is linked to a mysterious case of kidnapping involving the fifteen-year-old granddaughter of the owner of Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire. Reprint.
From its pastoral opening to its calamitous end, this 18th entry in the Richard Jury series is full of the same suspense and humor that devoted readers expect from Martha Grimes. Abridged.
It is named as one of the signs in Norwich in 1750 , * but is now , we believe , completely extinct in England ; in Paris there is still one surviving on the Boulevard St Martin The GRAVE MAURICE is of very old standing in London ...
Many years ago the latter house had a written sign, “The Grave Morris,” but this has been amended. But the original was the famous Prince of Orange, Grave Maurice, of whom we read in Howel's Familiar Letters. In Junius's Etymologicon ...
Jenny Weintroub – niece to Sgt. Maurice Gruber RAF no. ... friends were on a tour in Scandinavia, and as she was the niece of Sgt. Maurice Gruber, who was buried at Svino, she would therefore like to pay a visit to her uncle's grave.