Martha Grimes: The Deer Leap (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
In her latest Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes us to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While the puzzling deaths of village pets may raise some idle gossip over a pint or two at the Deer Leap, the village pub, this hardly seems a case for Superintendent Jury of Scotland yard. Nor does it seem much of a challenge for the combined deductive powers of Jury and Melrose, the affable former Earl of Caverness.

It is his mystery-writing, amethyst-eyed friend, Polly Praed, who drags Plant and Jury to Ashdown Dean. The impatient Polly, having yanked open a call box in the pouring rain, is ill-prepared for what lands at her feet. The now-deadly case is cause for calling in Scotland Yard.

Martha Grimes: The Deer Leap. A Richard Jury Mystery. Scribner eBook, ISBN: 9781476732893 (April, 2013), 2147 KB (ca. 324 p.), $11.99.

Martha Grimes: The Deer Leap (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
In a village plagued by missing pets, Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant face the worst of human nature...

Polly Praed's visit to Ashdown Dean lands her in the local police station -- being questioned about a corpse that fell out of a phone booth at her feet. Now Polly's calling for help from Melrose Plant and Richard Jury, because, like many of the pets in Ashdown Dean, her cat is missing. For Plant and Jury, it doesn't take a leap in logic to suspect the sinister laboratory at the edge of town. But it does take a local pub called the Deer Leap to lead them to a chilling old crime -- and a brand-new way to die...

Martha Grimes: The Deer Leap. A Richard Jury Novel. Onyx Books, ISBN: 0451411870 (June, 2005), 299 p., $7.99.

Martha Grimes: The Deer Leap (UK 1989)

From the Publisher:
First it was Una Quick's dog, next the Potter sisters' beloved cat. Anyone would have thought that the animal population of Ashdown Dean was killing itself off. Or being killed. Superintendent Jury discovers that the Hampshire village has many murky secrets beneath its sleepy surface.

Martha Grimes: The Deer Leap. Headline, ISBN: 0747230323 (January, 1990), 236 p., £2.99.