It's been a long time since I read any of the Pam and Jerry North mysteries by the Lockridges, and it was wonderful getting reacquainted with them. To me, Pam and Jerry seem like another version of Nick and Nora Charles, as portrayed by William Powell and Myrna Loy in the Thin Man movies, and I ...
One of the later Mr. & Mrs. North Mysteries.Lots of twists and turns in this story. Need to keep on your toes to figure out all the various characters and their various roles.Fun mystery, this one focused more on telling the story through Weigand and Pam's eyes.Could not quite figure it all out,...
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 d...
1941, #3 Mr. & Mrs. North, Police Lt. Weigand, New York City;a rich-but-nice young woman who works as a volunteer social worker gets herself poisoned at a posh nightclub, and surprisingly a lot of people wanted her out of the way. Cosy genteel police procedural, four stars. Lois Winston was a nic...
It's New Year's Eve, and Senator Bruce Kirkhill fails to appear at the home of his financee's father, Vice-Admiral Jonathan Satterbee. Instead, he is found later that same evening in a run-down neighborhood, wearing shabby clothes, and murdered Naively, the Admiral hires a private investigator to...
This novel was first published in 1953. My Avon 35 cent paperback edition has a real pulpy cover and is one of the later entries in the Mr. and Mrs. North detective mystery series. This story is fairly well written and the tension starts on the first pages. We open with the thoughts of a blackmai...
When Mary Hunter finds the dead body of George Merle in her home, the police discover that Merle is the father of her former boyfriend and Mary becomes the principal suspect. Merle had been a bank president and philanthropist, but when the Norths and Lieutenant Weigand team up, they uncover the b...
First in a long and extremely popular series, the main sleuth is actually Lt. Weigand of the NYC police - this is a cosy police procedural, with some nice bits of The Norths - who find the body - even though most people only remember them. In this first novel they do only a little sleuthing, and ...
A well-respected eye doctor in Manhatten is murdered by a sharp blow to the head right under the noses of his staff. Lieutenant Weigand is on the case with his good friends Pam and Jerry North. Together they tackle this puzzling case with customary wit and charm.
A Mr. And Mrs. North Mystery.
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 i...
to 9:45 P.M. Bill Weigand looked down at the Norths and smiled and said he had thought he would find them there. “And where,” he added, “are the nieces? The famous nieces?” “Famous?” Jerry repeated. “Sit down, Bill. At home, with Martha. We’re on vacation. Why famous?” Weigand sat down and said t...
TO 12:45 P.M. Weigand told the major to sit down. Weigand sat too. He still held the major’s automatic, and now he turned it in his hands, abstractedly. “Well, Major?” he said, after a moment. The major looked at him. The major was not so confident as usual; he looked, on the whole, embarrassed. ...
The first room—the display room—was empty, as it had been before. “With you in a minute,” Madeline Somers called, evidently from the next room, and there was the scratchy sound of paper being torn. Pam, from long experience, immediately identified Miss Somers’s activity. Miss Somers was changing ...
TO 1:33 P.M. We use kinder words about ourselves than others use; we do not see or hear about ourselves what others see. Florence Adams could have read the police description of herself and, with the name omitted, found that it stirred no faintest recollection of anyone she had ever seen. Her ski...