Robbie Parsons is one of London’s finest, a black cab driver who knows the town by center. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand-a man who brazenly dedicated a crime before the Artemis Club then jumped in and purchased Parsons to drive. As the criminal ultimately escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the situation in the Sunday paper.

Two days previously, he previously met and connected with among the victims, a teacher of astrophysics at Columbia and an expert gambler. Feeling individually affronted, Jury enlists Melrose Flower, Marshall Trueblood, and his entire gang of merry individuals to cope with a case which involves Tanzanian jewel mines, a shut Reno gambling house, and a pub that only London’s dark cabbies who’ve the knowledge can find.

With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes’s NY Times bestselling Richard Jury Mysteries are utterly unlike anyone else’s detective novels (The Washington Post).