Furday the Purrteenth

TGIF!

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In honor of June is Audiobook Month,

I recommend Martha Grimes' Richard Jury Mystery series:

The Man With a Load of Mischief (1981)

The Old Fox Deceiv'd (1982)

The Anodyne Necklace (1983)

The Dirty Duck (1984)

Jerusalem Inn (1984)

Help the Poor Struggler (1985)

The Deer Leap (1985)

I Am the Only Running Footman (1986)

The Five Bells and Bladebone (1987)

The Old Silent (1989)

The Old Contemptibles (1991

The Horse You Came In On (1993)

Rainbow's End (1995)

The Case Has Altered (1997)

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)

Dust (2007)

The Black Cat (2010)

Vertigo 42 (2014)

The Knowledge (2018)

The Old Success (2019)

The Red Queen (to publish in July, 2025)

All narrated by Steve West

Initially a Scotland Yard chief inspector, later a superintendent, melancholic Richard Jury is invariably assisted in his cases by Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles, and by his hypochondriacal but dependable sergeant, Alfred Wiggins.

The names of each book is or was the title of an actual pub, which figure in the storylines.

I stumbled on this series when "The Black Cat" was on the new books shelf that the library, and found it fascinating enough to start at the beginning, and have kept going as each new book is released.

I've read them, and I've listened to them; Narrator Steve West is one of the best!

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