Hanged for a Sheep

Literature & Fiction

Lockridge, Frances Louise Davis

LOCKRIDGE, Richard

United States

Perennial

Funny as only a North mystery can be funny. It's also a fine who-done it.

Murder Out of Turn (A Mr. & Mrs. North Mystery)

Harpercollins

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.

The Norths Meet Murder

A Pinch of Poison

The Dishonest Murderer

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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.

Dead As a Dinosaur

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

Murder Is Served

Highly recommended for the Norths' admirers who by this time have turned into a sizable pressure group. Well-plotted and suspenseful.

Murder Within Murder

Mystery and comedy are agreeably blended in this, as in all the other Mr. and Mrs. North stories.

Death of a Tall Man

Payoff for the Banker

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