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Biting The Moon
A teen with amnesia searching for her past with her new friend Mary Dark Hope, a character from another Richard Jury book. Unsatisfying.
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9/2000
Dust
Well, it's not a pub, it's a nightclub. This was a pretty good read, but rather unsatisfying as we do not find out who-done-it, neither now, nor on the raft. I have some questions:
1. What happened to the chop? (pg. 140)
2. Was the finding of the gun mentioned before? (pg. 319)
3. Didn't the autopsy show that Billy did not eat anything? (pg. 320)
But, really, I enjoyed the book.
Words I Had To Look Up:::
past another line of oasthouses. (pg. 83) -- Building containing a kiln for drying hops.
in medias res (pg. 211) -- A Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning, establishing setting, character, and conflict via flashback and expository conversations relating the pertinent past.from Wikipedia.
City of Benares (pg. 225) -- Seventy-seven children died in the sinking.
Quote:
Everyone in the bloody world smoked except him, chain-smoked, even. He wouldn't be surprised to see Mungo light up. (pg. 254) Mungo is a dog.
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7/2010
Help The Poor Struggler
Richard Jury, #6. Jury has to help find the murderer of several children. Good story!
Quote:
"Come on, Wiggins. One drink of Freddie's cider and you'll never be sick a day in your life. You'll be paralytic." -- Page 141 Read:
2/2024
Hotel Paradise
Emma Graham #1. Emma is twelve and lives at the hotel where her mother is cook, and possibly co-owner, or previous owner, a lot is not made clear. It is an interesting story, and very nicely written. It moves along very slowly, however, and some readers take issue with that. It is sort of a murder mystery. A very literary crime story, some have said.
Quote:
I am not Catholic or of any particular creed, but I cross myself whenever I think of those buckwheat cakes.Read:
3/2024
Jerusalem Inn
Richard Jury, #5. Jury meets an interesting woman, but she dies pretty quickly. Lots of snow! Plant goes skiing!
Quote:
"She was shot in the back with a .041, smallbore shotgun..." -- A what? Page 249 Quote:
"What? Why the hell would there be a silencer for a rifle lying about?" -- This. Plus, I thought she was shot with a shotgun. Page 278 Read:
2/2024
Rainbow's End
Each of her books is the name of a pub.
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7/1998
Stargazzy
Superintendent Jury investigates a murdered woman in a flower bed and a woman who says she was NOT on the bus. Good story.
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9/1999
The Anodyne Necklace
Richard Jury, #3. I'm still not sure what an anodyne is, but I enjoyed reading the story.
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2/2024
The Black Cat
Jury investigates the murder of a librarian/escort woman. There is more about woman's shoes than I really want to know. Three black cats and the dog Mungo make a humorous interlude.
Smoke Quote:
For the one millionth time, Jry would have given an ear for a cigarette. He could really understand van Gogh if the man had quit smoking.-- Pg. 109
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4/2011Read again:
8/2013
The Case Has Altered
Richard Jury investigates two murders in the fen country of England.
QUOTE:
"Thinking" was apparently a rather novel act for Julie, and an intensely physical one. She folded her arms and scratched her elbows, squinting up at the ceiling; she drew her mouth back revealing teeth as small as a child's, then pursed the mouth, repeating this process several times. She might have been indulging in some of Fiona's facial exercises. Her neck seemed to strain upward as if there were a rarefied air up there necessary for cerebral activity. Jury had to give her this: that unlike most people, Julie took thinking dammed seriously.--Page 183.Read:
8/1999Read:
3/2024
The Deer Leap
Richard Jury, #7. Jury goes to some small village (as always?) to check out the death of an old woman using a pay phone during a rain storm.
Quote:
..."except for the .412 shotgun butted against her shoulder"... -- I've heard of a 410, but not .412 Quote:
Carrie...had already taken on a whippet and a poodle... The Alsatian was having a nap...The poodle was doing the same. -- I thought an Alsatian was a German Shepherd? Quote:
...she was groping in the bag and brought out an apple. "Would you like this for your lunch?"
"Thank you," said Jury gravely... It was the first bribe he'd ever taken. Quote:
Her dressing gown was definitely the sweeping sort, blue brocade and ivory insets and a long train. -- I thought that said "insects"... Quote:
... loaded the .412 again... -- There's that .412 again!!Read:
2/2024
The Dirty Duck
Richard Jury, #4. In Stratford, the Shakespeare place, of number of people are murdered, and even one kidnapped, before Jury figures out who did it.
Quote:
"Hideously," said Melrose... -- Page 89 Quote:
"Hideously." [said Melrose] -- Page 93 Quote:
"Hideous," said Melrose... -- Page 96 Read:
2/2024
The Grave Maurice
Ricard Jury, #19. Jury apparently got shot in the previous book, he is in the hospital here at the start. He is asked to investigate, unofficially, the disappearance of a fifteen year old year.
Quote:
It was rather restful watching Diane's mind at work. One never had to venture far and there were a lot of lay-bys along the way.Quote:
...languor's home, ennui's back garden, apathy's arbor.Read:
2/2024
The Knowledge
Richard Jury, #24. A recent acquaintance of Jury is killed at the front door of a casino/art gallery. Melrose goes on safari in Africa, meets an interesting person while there. POSSIBLE ERROR: The Glaser Safety Slug is NOT non-lethal. If I'm wrong please correct me!!!
Quote:
"Hell's bells," said Melrose, taking a sausage from a passing plate. -- page 255 Quote:
"Her name wouldn't be Patty Haigh, would it?" -- page 306 Quote:
"It was loaded with forty-five-caliber ACP Glasers when I left London. Nonlethal. -- page 613 Read:
2/2024
The Man With A Load Of Mischief
Richard Jury, #1. I must have read this before, but before I started keeping track. Jury meets Plant, and Vivian, and solves a strange series of murders.
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1/2024
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
Richard Jury, #2. Jury is called to investigate the murder of a woman dressed in a Twelfth Nigh party costume. Also some other murders happen. Or happened before.
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2/2024
The Old Success
Richard Jury, #25. A woman is found murdered on a beach on an island, in the Isles Of Scilly, which I placed at the wrong end of the country.
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2/2024
The old wine shades
Drury investigates a woman, her son, and a dog that have disappeared. But the dog came back. Very uneven Amazon reviews. I say, mostly interesting, even the quantum mechanics stuff, but the ending left me hanging.
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7/2006
The Way Of All Fish
The second book in a series, with not always great reviews on Goodreads, and I grabbed it by misteak at the library. So I was kind of stuck with it. Well, the first two-thirds I was ploughing along, but the third-third picked up a bit and I enjoyed it more. My major peeve is that a clown fish is a salt water fish. It's not gonna live in a little fishbowl very long. Good thing this is fiction!
Quote:
He was sipping the second half of his drink when he decided the plane was losing altitude, by way of either landing or crashing. He didn't care as long as the cart had time to come his way again and so long as Shirlee Murphee's manuscript was incinerated. -- pg 157
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7/2016
Vertigo 42
Richard Jury, #23. The title refers to a bar on the 42nd floor of a building in London's financial district. Jury investigates the death of a woman seventeen years ago, and the possibly related death of a young girl seventeen plus five years ago. Then there's the woman who felling out of a folly tower.
Quote:
He inhaled, said. "You still stopped?" He wiggled the cigarette.
Glumly, Jury nodded. "When are you going to stop?"
"Never, seeing the effect it's had on you."
Quote:
"I think I would give anything to go back to the old days. To be sitting with Tess over fish and chips talking about these ships." He had picked up and now replaced the bottle. "Or any ships. Or anything at all." -- Heartbreaking Quote:
Jury sighed. "Two murders and you're making up a syllogism?"Read:
2/2024
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