In 2012, Grimes was named Grand Master by the Edgar Awards Mystery Writers of America. In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montgomery College (Takoma Park). at the University of Maryland and did postgraduate work at the University of Iowa. 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. She is best known for a series featuring Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, and Melrose Plant, an aristocrat turned amateur sleuth. Martha Grimes (born May 2, 1931) is an American writer of detective fiction. ( February 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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