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Martha speaks about how The Only Running Footman pub inspired her to title her eighth book in the Richard Jury series. She also tells the meaning and history behind the pub's name.

Martha’s grandsons Will and Scott talk about their grandmother’s books and their experiences in London.

Martha Grimes’ grandson Will asks her what her next book she is going to write, and it will be a new book in the Emma Graham series. The book after that will be a Richard Jury mystery, maybe named after the pub they are in right now called the Friend At Hand.

Martha Grimes describes the writing process for the Richard Jury mystery series. She never has a plot in mind when she starts to write a new book, it evolves during the writing, and it’s never clear “whodunit” often until near the end of the book. One reason why she enjoys writing the series is that the sense of humor of the characters makes her laugh. Martha discusses how she’s always loved British mysteries and how British pubs are unique: there is nothing in the U.S. like the British pub.

Mystery writer Martha Grimes continues to outline the plot of her new book THE BLACK CAT, in bookstores nationwide on April 6, 2010. Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard must match wits with his nemesis Harry Johnson, the psychopath from THE OLD WINE SHADES and DUST, trying to figure out how the black cat from the eponymous pub in Chesham is in Harry Johnson’s backyard in London.

Mystery writer Martha Grimes describes the plot of her new book THE BLACK CAT, in bookstores nationwide on April 6, 2010. Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate the murder of a young woman at THE BLACK CAT, a pub the London suburb of Chesham. Dressed from hell to dead toe in expensive designer clothes, no one can identify the body, nor figure out why she’s been murdered outside this small pub in this small village when she appears to be going out on the town. Jury has to solve this mystery while wrestling with his feelings over the near-death coma of his girlfriend Detective Inspector Lu Aguilar.