"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 wh ..."
Murder Out of Turn(Reprint) (The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries) by Frances Lockridge, RichardLockridge Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-4766-1, ISBN: 1-5040-4766-4
"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 ..."
A Pinch of Poison(Reprint) (The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries) by Frances Lockridge, RichardLockridge Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-4767-8, ISBN: 1-5040-4767-2
"At a swanky rooftop restaurant, a young woman takes her final sip 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 ..."
"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"
The Norths Meet Murder(Reprint) (The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries) by Frances Lockridge, RichardLockridge Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2016 by Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-3944-4, ISBN: 1-5040-3944-0
"Mr. and Mrs. North stumble upon a corpse-and fall backward into murder. 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 inconve ..."
"Cats, he reports, kill meadow larks, hummingbirds, flickers, robins, warblers,
wrens, woodpeckers, woodcocks, cedar ... cat well, feeding the cat raw meat,
keeping it on leash, belling it, putting cat guards on trees, putting barbed wire on
trees, ..."
"At a swanky rooftop restaurant, a young woman takes her final sip 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 ..."
"It started with little things, with things of no real significance. And so opens Catch as Catch Can by Frances & Richard Lockridge. The whole mystery starts with the little things....Linda Parks comes home to the apartment she shares with Joyce Holbrook expecting to share a dinner of pork chops and salad with her roommate. She finds the door unlocked (expected) and the apartment empty (not)."
Something Up a Sleeve(1st Edition) by RichardLockridge Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1972 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN-13: 978-0-397-00867-4, ISBN: 0-397-00867-8
"Good condition considering age of the item."
Death in the Mind (Classic Reprint) by RichardLockridge Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-243-47905-4, ISBN: 0-243-47905-0
"Excerpt from Death in the MindFew of the things which happened and lent themselves to rumor in the late September of 1942 can be told even now, although the considerations of security which then were domi nant do not, for the most part, now exist. A good many of the men, and women, of whom those stories were told are dead, and there is no reason to be too revealing about the dead - under the very peculiar circumstances, there is, indeed ..."
"After John Halley's body is discovered in a lake on his country estate during a snowbound New Year's Eve party, Captain Heimrich of the New York State Police attempts to solve the crime before the killer strikes again"
"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 ..."
"The books of Frances and Richard Lockridge, are those classic mysteries featuring Mr. & Mrs. North. Otherwise known to the world as Pam and Jerry, he of the book publishing business and she--well, Pam is not so easily captured. On occasion she's the ditzy character, and at others she's so sharp it's amazing she doesn't cut herself.
This amiable, leisurely book is the perfect example of the Lockridge's art. All the stock characters are ..."
"Lt. Nathan Shapiro gets a phone call from former Dyckman University football star Stuart Fleming that concerns point-shaving at the school, but the case gets far more complicated when Fleming is murdered"