Helpful Score: 3
I've been a fan of Martha Grimes a long time and have read all of the Richard Jury series in order. I've loved every one that I've read until this one. It's very confusing (and also uninteresting)to me and I know the history of all the main charactors...anyone who reads this as their first time Grimes mystery will be very disappointed.... Start at the beginning of the series with "A Man With a Load of Mischief". This will catch your interest right away and get you hooked on the Richard Jury/Melrose Plant saga. Make sure to read all the Jury mysteries in order..the others are MUCH better than this one !
Janice C. (jcwords) reviewed The Horse You Came in On (Richard Jury, Bk 12) on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
As always, Grimes has concocted a suspenseful tale. The book's American setting was well done, but there was more bad language than usual due to some of the characters.
Helpful Score: 1
Scotland Yard sleuth, Richard Jury, his assistant, the long-suffering Wiggins, and Jury's aristocratic pal, Melrose Plant, travel to Baltimore to investigate the death of a British citizen. As always, the book's title is the name of a pub--or in America, a bar.
The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sergeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allan Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called "The Horse You Came In On" .
Cheryl R. (Spuddie) -
Twelfth in the Chief Inspector Richard Jury series. In this book, Jury and Sgt. Wiggins and his friend Melrose Plant are reluctantly off to America, to investigate two different murders at the behest of two different friends, wandering into the literary world of Johns Hopkins University, Edgar Allan Poe and a football franchise for Baltimore! This was another of Grimes' weaker Jury novels; I don't know if it was the setting, if being away from the UK weakened the book or what, but it wasn't a story I enjoyed overly much aside from being glad for a visit with all the recurring characters. There were a lot of side trips away from the mystery part of the story and it wasn't, in general, very coherent nor cohesive.
I have this book but I can't "get into it".
Alison J. (Alison) reviewed The Horse You Came in On (Richard Jury, Bk 12) on + 551 more book reviews
Martha Grimes is a masterful writer of mysteries.
Pretty good mystery
I sincerely enjoyed the whole series of these books. Light mysteries but no gore. Each book is named after a particular pub in england and you have fun discovering the different characters that inhabit these pubs.
I don't like foul language. It is often unnecessary, and doesn't really add to the enjoyment of the story.
a juicy stew of a plot
Grimes is always fun to read and "The Horse You Came In On" is no exception; however, perhaps not as good as her best. The characters fit better in a lazy English village.
Hermine R. (herlibrary) reviewed The Horse You Came in On (Richard Jury, Bk 12) on + 76 more book reviews
This is a large print edition.
