Book
The knowledge : a Richard Jury mystery
Record details
- ISBN: 0802128017
- ISBN: 9780802128010
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Physical Description:
364 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case in the Saturday paper. Two days previously, Jury had met and instantly connected with one of the victims of the crime, a professor of astrophysics at Columbia and an expert gambler. Feeling personally affronted, Jury soon enlists Melrose Plant, Marshall Trueblood, and his whole gang of merry characters to contend with a case that takes unexpected turns into Tanzanian gem mines, a closed casino in Reno, Nevada, and a pub that only London's black cabbies, those who have "the knowledge," can find"-- |
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| Subject: | Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) Fiction Police England Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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Available copies
- 56 of 56 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 0 current holds with 56 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC GRIMES (Text) | 33750000069334 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F GRIMES M (Text) | 32544072497901 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Gri Richard Jury; bk.24 (Text) | 33160142353278 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | MYSTERY GRIMES (Richard Jury 24) (Text) | 34030142360376 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | MYS GRIMES (Text) | 34000081310997 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | A M GRI (Text) | 33260000268947 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/GRIMES MYST. (Text) | 34029142295335 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Burnham Library - Bridgewater | MYST GRIMES (Text) | 36937002151406 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | MYS GRIMES (Text) | 34000081311003 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | MYS GRIMES (Text) | 34014138132387 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
