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The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes

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Also by Martha Grimes:

Double Double, June 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Fadeaway Girl, February 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Fadeaway Girl, February 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Black Cat, April 2010
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Dakota, February 2009
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Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery, December 2007
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Dust, January 2007
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The Old Silent, August 2006
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Belle Ruin, August 2005
Hardcover
The Dirty Duck, June 2004
Paperback (reprint)
The Anodyne Necklace, January 2004
Paperback (reprint)
The Grave Maurice, September 2003
Paperback (reprint)
The Old Fox Deceiv'd, June 2003
Paperback (reprint)
The Man With a Load of Mischief, February 2003
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The Blue Last, September 2002
Paperback (reprint)
The Five Bells and Bladebone, June 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Cold Flat Junction, February 2002
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I Am the Only Running Footman, October 2001
Paperback (reprint)
The Train Now Departing: Two Novellas, June 2001
Paperback (reprint)
The Lamorna Wink, September 2000
Paperback (reprint)
Biting the Moon, March 2000
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The Stargazey, October 1999
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The Case Has Altered, November 1998
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The Dirty Duck
Martha Grimes

A Richard Jury Novel
Onyx
June 2004
Featuring: Richard Jury
320 pages
ISBN: 0451411390
Paperback (reprint)
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“Zest and wit…Grimes [is] in good form with her literate style and witty eye.”—The Washington Post

It’s a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions for Scotland Yard’s Richard Jury …

Superintendent Richard Jury has been wrong before. But when stating that “nothing ever happens in Stratford,” he never imagined just how wrong he could be. Besides the stage murders committed nightly at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a real one has been performed not far from a popular pub known as The Dirty Duck. The killer has left behind a fragment of Elizabethan verse—a rhyme that could mean death with each new line…

“She is working in the great tradition…Good news for addicts—crime with style.”—Vogue

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

“A star in the mystery genre… an elegant writer and inventor of dazzling plots…The denouement is a masterly example of Grimes’s ingenuity.”—Publisher’s Weekly

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