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Martha Grimes is an American author of detective fiction.

She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montgomery College.

Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub. Her page-turning, character-driven tales fall into the mystery subdivision of "cozies." In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace.

The background to Hotel Paradise is drawn on the experiences she enjoyed spending summers at her mother's hotel in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. One of the characters, Mr Britain, is drawn on Britten Leo Martin, Sr, who then ran Marti's Store which he owned with his father and brother. Martin's Store is accessible by a short walkway from Mountain Lake, the site of the former Hotel, which was torn down in 1967.

She splits her time between homes in Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Martha Grimes

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Books from Martha Grimes

The Man With a Load of Mischief

The Old Fox Deceiv'd

The Anodyne Necklace

The Old Silent

The Blue Last

Jerusalem Inn

The Knowledge

Help the Poor Struggler

The Black Cat

The Deer Leap

The Black Cat

The Way of All Fish

The Dirty Duck

I Am the Only Running Footman

The Five Bells and Bladebone

The Winds of Change

Biting the Moon

Fremde Federn (Richard Jury Mystery, #12)

I Am the Only Running Footman (Richard Jury, #8)

The Lamorna Wink (Richard Jury, #16)