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 sheâÂÂs 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.