I Am the Only Running Footman (Richard Jury Series #8)

by Martha Grimes

Overview

In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running Footman, near Berkeley Square in London’s fashionable Mayfair District. Devon policeman Brian Macalvie is convinced that the two murders are connected. And thus, in his eighth case, Richard Jury is drawn into the so-called Porphyria killings. A particularly elusive pair of murders. From the streets of London to the village of Somers Abbas, Jury and Macalvie are joined by the stolid if hypochondriac Sergeant Wiggins and the reluctant Melrose Plant. They meet in another pub, the Mortal Man, and, amidst the clatter and cry of the Warboys family, they ponder a labyrinthine set of clues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476732923
Publisher:	Scribner
Publication date:	05/14/2013
Series:	Richard Jury Series , #8
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, twenty-five of them featuring Richard Jury. The recipient of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Hometown:

Washington, DC and Santa Fe, NM

Date of Birth:

May 2, 1931

Place of Birth:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Education:

B.A., M.A., University of Maryland

Website:

http://www.marthagrimes.com

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A superior writer.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Literate, witty, and stylishly crafted.”—The Washington Post

“Grimes is not the next Dorothy Sayers, not the next Agatha Christie. She is better than both.” —Atlanta Journal & Constitution

“Read any one [of her novels] and you’ll want to read them all.” —Chicago Tribune

Editorial Reviews

New Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is convinced it's more than coincidence when two beautiful young women are found strangled to death with their own scarves -- one in Devon, the second outside a fashionable Mayfair pub. Both women were as strikingly similar in life as they were in death. Neither had enemies that Jury can find. Now, somewhere in the night, a killer is biding his time, beckoning Jury and Devon's local divisional commander, Brian Macalvie, down an elusive trail of tragic family secrets and even more fatal lies....

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A superior writer.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Literate, witty, and stylishly crafted.”—The Washington Post

“Grimes is not the next Dorothy Sayers, not the next Agatha Christie. She is better than both.” —Atlanta Journal & Constitution

“Read any one [of her novels] and you’ll want to read them all.”—Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher