Martha Grimes Biography

Martha Grimes is an American author of detective fiction. Martha Grimes was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to William Dermit Grimes Pittsburgh's city solicitor and June Dunnington who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa Frostburg State University and Montgomery College. Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury an inspector with Scotland Yard and his friend Melrose Plant a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. The background to Hotel Paradise is drawn on the experiences she enjoyed spending summers at her mother's hotel in Mountain Lake Park Maryland. One of the characters Mr. Britten is drawn on Britten Leo Martin Sr who then ran Martin's Store which he owned with his father and brother. Martin's Store is accessible by a short walkway from the Mountain Lake Hotel the site of the former Hotel which was torn down in 1967.

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