A razor-happy murderer is on the loose in Shakespeare's Stratford, targeting a group of rich American tourists. When Miss Bracegirdle is found murdered in The Dirty Duck pub, with only two lines of an unknown poem as a clue, Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard steps in to investigate. Follow Jury as he navigates the bloodier side of Elizabethan verse in this captivating mystery.

The Dirty Duck

Richard Jury is a fictional Scotland Yard detective who stars in a series of mystery novels written by Martha Grimes.Initially a chief inspector, later a superintendent, Jury is invariably assisted in his cases by Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles, and his hypochondriacal but dependable sergeant, Alfred Wiggins. Many o…