The Horse You Came in On (43 page)
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Authors: Martha Grimes
Jury was convulsed with silent laughter.
Plant and Trueblood looked hopelessly at the little black notebook.
The silent laughter overflowed as Jury said, “So take
that,
matesâ” he pounded his pint on the tableâ“and the horse you came in on!”
CKNOWLEDGMENTS
My sincere thanks to Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe house on Amity Street; William Addams Reitwiesner, genealogist, and his help with the intricacies of entitlement; Maria Wrzesinski for the excellent
copie;
and the Perrys for the NFL updates.
. . . and I assure my friends and students at Johns Hopkins University: I have never once met a Vlasic there. Or a little Vlasic.
A
LSO BY
M
ARTHA
G
RIMES
The End of the Pier
RICHARD JURY NOVELS
The Old Contemptibles
The Old Silent
The Five Bells & Bladebone
I Am the Only Running Footman
Help the Poor Struggler
The Deer Leap
Jerusalem Inn
The Dirty Duck
The Anodyne Necklace
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
The Man with a Load of Mischief
VERSE
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is a dual memoir of alcoholism written by Martha Grimes and her son Ken. This brutally candid book describes how different both the disease and the recovery can look in two different peopleâeven two people who are mother and son.
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First in the Richard Jury Mystery Series
The Man with a Load of Mischief
A bizarre murder disturbs a sleepy Yorkshire fishing village.
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
Murder makes the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place.
The Anodyne Necklace
In Shakespeare's beloved Stratford, Miss Gwendolyn Bracegirdle of Sarasota, Florida, takes her last drink.
The Dirty Duck
Jury has himself a mysterious little Christmas set in a chilly English landscape and Gothic estate.
Jerusalem Inn
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered.
Help the Poor Struggler
In Ashdown Dean, a little English village, animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents.
The Deer Leap
In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder.
I Am the Only Running Footman
A dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau.
The Five Bells and Bladebone
Jury witnesses a killing in West Yorkshire inn The Old Silent.
The Old Silent
Jury finds himself a suspect, detained in London, while his friend Melrose Plant investigates in the Lake District.
The Old Contemptibles
