Mr. and Mrs. North Books
A sophisticated 1930s Greenwich Village couple finds an inconvenient body in their upstairs bathtub in the first installment of an “excellent series” ( The New Yorker ). Jerry and Pamela North’s upstairs apartment has been empty as long as they can remember. It’s an ordinary Greenwich Village abode, and the Norths are ordinary Villagers—which means they can’t bear to go more than a few days between cocktail parties. So when Pamela decides to stage a soiree in the empty apartment, Jerry goes along begrudgingly. But what seems inconvenient becomes felonious the moment they find a dead man in the tub. He has been bludgeoned, stripped naked, and left to rot. The party is most certainly off. Which neighbor was rude enough to leave a body in the upstairs tub? Though they should know better, Mr. and Mrs. North can’t resist getting involved. Before they know it, they’re right in the thick of a manhunt, and Greenwich Village will never be the same. The Norths Meet Murder is the 1st book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
For Mr. and Mrs. North, there’s no vacation from murder In a remote cabin far from New York City, Jerry and Pamela North are getting killed. On the brink of annihilation, they grit their teeth and battle back. In a minute, the fight is finished—and the Norths are named mixed doubles champions. It’s a happy moment during a splendid vacation, but off the tennis court, all is not well. Following an afternoon of fun and games, the evening’s entertainment will be murder. Mr. and Mrs. North have invited their closest friends—an ex-aviator, a mysterious doctor, and NYPD’s own Lt. William Weigand—to join them on this glittering retreat, but the joviality ends when Weigand finds Helen Wilson lying across the path, a knife buried in her neck. A member of the group surely killed her, and unless the Norths act quickly, the murderer will strike again.
At a swanky rooftop restaurant in New York, a pair of husband-and-wife sleuths must find out who spiked a woman’s drink with murder . . . There’s a stunning view from the top of the Ritz-Plaza Hotel, but it pales in comparison to Lois Winston’s beauty. She arrives on the arm of David McIntosh—an agreeable young man who would marry her if she gave him the chance—to take in the scenery, eat a light supper, and forget the busy world below. Lois’s first cocktail lifts her spirits, helping her dispel the strange sadness that tugs at her soul. But her second drink isn’t so kind. Lois isn’t halfway done with her Cuba libre when her cheeks grow hot, her breath becomes short, and she falls dead to the floor. Solving the case of this terribly fashionable murder falls to New York Police Department’s Lt. William Weigand, who tackles the investigation with the help of his friends, Jerry and Pamela North. The effervescent couple will catch the killer between cocktails—unless the poisoner targets their glasses next. “[An] excellent series.” — The New Yorker “Pam is always amusing.” — The New York Times
They say Broadway is a graveyard of hopes and dreams, but someone’s adding corpses to its tombs… Mr. and Mrs. North live as quiet a life as a couple can amidst the bustle of New York City. For Jerry, a publisher, and Pamela, a homemaker, the only threat to their domestic equilibrium comes in the form of Mrs. North’s relentless efforts as an amateur sleuth, which repeatedly find the duo investigating murders and sundry other crimes. So when the wealthy backer of a play is found dead in the seats of the West 45th Street Theatre, the Norths aren’t far behind, led by Pam’s customary flair for murders that turn eccentric and, yes, humorous. Alongside Lieutenant William Weigand of the New York Police Department, they’ll employ illogical logic and bizarrely tangential suggestions to draw the curtains on a killer. A light mystery set in a classic Broadway locale, Death on the Aisle is lent verisimilitude by author Richard Lockridge’s career as a theater critic. Though it is the fourth novel in the saga of this charming, witty couple, the series can be enjoyed in any order, with each installment depicting its own self-contained story.
At a banquet in 1940s New York, the guest of honor is a goner: “A genuinely puzzling mystery . . . with the delightful wackiness that has made the Norths famous.” — The New York Times Tonight, Jerry North faces something so terrifying that no amount of martinis could quiet his nerves: He has to make a speech. He’s introducing one of his authors, Victor Leeds Sproul, a continental novelist whose delicate tales of Parisian life have been selling like hotcakes ever since the Nazis goose-stepped into the City of Light. Crippled by stage fright, Mr. North enters the banquet hall feeling like a condemned man, but he isn’t the one who will die. Despite his terror, North delivers the speech of his life. But when he introduces the guest of honor, the distinguished author doesn’t stand. Sproul’s eyes jerk open, his chest heaves, and he breathes his last. He has been murdered in plain sight, but it will take the combined genius of Jerry and Pamela North to find out who killed the writer, and committed the unforgivable crime of ruining a perfect speech. “[An] excellent series.” — The New Yorker Death Takes a Bow is the sixth book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Mystery and comedy are agreeably blended in this, as in all the other Mr. and Mrs. North stories.
Now Pam and Jerry North, those dashing sleuths of café society, have teamed up with Homicide's Lieutenant Weigand, and everything -- from arsenic and old lace to greedy heirs -- might be a clue. Was this an act of revenge? Or was it a case of . . . murder within murder?
It took a long time for her to understand where she was and what had happened to her. At first she was conscious only of a dull pain where one of the men had hit her; and then the jouncing motion, and the darkness surrounding her. It came to her suddenly that she was locked up in the trunk of a car and they were taking her somewhere!I certainly did it this tie, Doris Weigand thought. It was so clever of me to do a little detecting on my own for my husband. "Darling! I'll never do it again, darling. Oh, Bill, find me and get me out of here!"A gay and lively mystery full of giddy hi-jinks featuring a beautiful kidnapped woman, two sinister and misguided thugs, and the untidy case of the man who fell (?) out of a very high window.
Although the wealthy victim's wife is the most obvious murder suspect, Pam and Jerry North are convinced that others had motives to kill the playboy restauranteur
Gerald and Pamela North investigate the murder of J.K. Halder, an eccentric millionaire who preferred the company of animals to that of people
Pam and Jerry North were lolling over an elegant brunch and planning a drive to the country when, once again, their plans were cut short. One woman's dead, one missing, and Pam searches for clues to a killer who would try to make... murder come first.
When a paleontologist is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North go digging for his killer. The office of Dr. Orpheus Preson is filled with remains, the bones of long dead dinosaurs. He waves one of them at the NYPD detective, demanding the police stop the person who's been sending workmen to his house - an endless parade of bricklayers, butlers, French tutors, and tree surgeons, none of whom Preson hired, and all of whom expect payment. There's nothing law enforcement can do, which means it's time to call the only two people in New York who can help: Pamela and Jerry North. A fashionable literary couple who's made a habit of solving mysteries between martinis, the Norths have known Dr. Preson since Jerry published his first book. The amateur detectives vow to do what they can for the perturbed paleontologist, but it's too little too late. When Dr. Preson is found murdered, the Norths will find that the poor man had more than one kind of skeleton in his closet.
Book by Lockridge, Frances Louise Davis, Lockridge, Richard
Pam North investigates the death of Byron Wilmot after it becomes apparent that the malicious intent behind his many practical jokes earned him many enemies
When their lawyer is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North find that everyone in Manhattan is a suspect Jerry and Pamela North have targets on their backs. It’s not fair, but that’s what happens when you make a hobby out of catching killers. The murderers get upset, and, well, you know how they are. And with all this homicidal attention directed at the Norths, it’s about time they made out a will. Unfortunately, they have only just started the process when their lawyer is stopped for good, and the sleuthing couple is in trouble again. Forbes Ingraham is found in his office, a bullet in his head. He was killed just a few yards from the desk of his secretary, which should make this a cut-and-dried case, but the young woman is notoriously unobservant. Discovering who took out the lawyer falls to Mr. and Mrs. North, who must work carefully—lest they should need that will sooner than expected. A Key to Death is the 19th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
PUTTING A SHOW ON BROADWAY CAN BE BLOODY MURDER! Even an indisputable smash hit. Act I: the show's chief angel — its richest investor — engages the leading lady in an offstage romance. Act II: he makes a very final exit! Pam and Jerry North spotlight a stellar cast of suspects in the dramatic denouement of this DEATH OF AN ANGEL.
On a Caribbean cruise Pam and Jerry North discover the body of J. Orville Marsh, a retired private detective, who was murdered with a ceremonial sword
Remember Mr. & Mrs. North--one of the all-time favorite detective teams? This time the action starts when they check into a hotel to escape the fumes from their freshly painted apartment--and find a corpse in their room! The murdered woman is a famous television personality, and the Norths are prime suspects; and they even face a libel suit as a result of their sleuthing. Then the trail leads to the hills of Arkansas and to a nerve-tingling climax.
1984 Pocket Books mass market PB., by Richard and Frances Lockridge. A Mr,& Mrs. North mystery. A wealthy professor is murdered. Was he killed for his money or his theories?
Pam and Jerry North investigate the murder of a tennis official, but the case becomes more complex when the chief suspect is also found murdered
Pam and Jerry North investigate the death of a popular novelist who left behind many enemies with reasons to wish him dead
On vacation at a chic Southern resort, Gerald and Pamela North discover the body of Dr. Edmund Piersal, a forensic medical examiner