Martha Grimes (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
Richard Jury/Melrose Plant, 1981-.
Principal Series Characters
Detective Superintendent Richard Jury, of Scotland Yard, without calculating ambition, rises easily through the ranks. Urbane, handsome, compassionate, Jury turns women’s heads but remains unattached.
Melrose Plant is Jury’s aristocratic friend, an amateur sleuth.
Wiggins is Jury’s health-conscious sergeant, who assists him on cases.
Chief Superintendent Racer continually carps at Jury but has no effect on Jury’s blossoming career.
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