Martha Grimes

AmericanCrimeCozy MysteryPolice Proceduralb. 1931

Martha Grimes (born May 2, 1931) is an American novelist best known for her long-running mystery series featuring Inspector Richard Jury and Melrose Plant. Born in Pittsburgh and raised with strong ties to Western Maryland, she began publishing novels in 1981 and has written more than thirty books, combining cozy-amateur-sleuth elements with police-procedural detail. She won the Nero Wolfe Award (1983) for The Anodyne Necklace and received the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2012. Grimes has taught at several universities and lives in Maryland.

Awards

['Nero Wolfe Award (1983)', 'Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award (2012)']

Notable Works

['The Man With a Load of Mischief', 'The Anodyne Necklace', 'The Dirty Duck', 'Richard Jury series']

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