The Norths Meet Murder: 1 (The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries)

The Norths Meet Murder: 1 (The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries)

by Frances Lockridge (Author), Frances Lockridge (Author), Richard Lockridge (Author)

Synopsis

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.

$18.25

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 11 Aug 2016

ISBN 10: 1504039440
ISBN 13: 9781504039444

Media Reviews
You'll want to read it. . . . A distinct addition to the annals of modern crime. -The New York Times

Praise for the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries
Class A. -The Saturday Review of Literature on Murder Out of Turn

One of the funniest and most satisfactory mysteries in this excellent series. -The New Yorker on Payoff for the Banker
Author Bio
Frances and Richard Lockridge were some of the most popular names in mystery during the forties and fifties. Having written numerous novels and stories, the husband-and-wife team was most famous for their Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries. What started in 1936 as a series of stories written for the New Yorker turned into twenty-six novels, including adaptions for Broadway, film, television, and radio. The Lockridges continued writing together until Frances's death in 1963, after which Richard discontinued the Mr. and Mrs. North series and wrote other works until his own death in 1982.