Frances Lockridge; Richard Lockridge

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1940
  • Latest Book:
    February 1996
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Full Series List in Order

A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery

1 - The Norths Meet Murder (1940)
2 - Murder Out of Turn (1941)
3 - A Pinch of Poison (1941)
4 - Death on the Aisle (1942)
5 - Hanged For a Sheep (1942)
6 - Death Takes a Bow (1943)
7 - Killing the Goose (1944)
8 - Payoff for the Banker (1945)
9 - Death of a Tall Man (1946)
10 - Murder Within Murder (1946)
11 - Untidy Murder (Feb-1996)
12 - Murder Is Served (1948)
13 - The Dishonest Murderer (1949)
14 - Murder in a Hurry (1950)
15 - Murder Comes First (1951)
16 - Dead As a Dinosaur (1952)
17 - Death Has a Small Voice (1953)
18 - Curtain for a Jester (1953)
19 - Key to Death (1954)
20 - Death of an Angel (1955)
21 - Voyage into Violence (1956)
22 - Long Skeleton (1958)
23 - Murder Is Suggested (1959)
24 - The Judge Is Reversed (1960)
25 - Murder Has Its Points (1961)
26 - Murder by the Book (1963)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Norths Meet Murder

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 1

    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 c...

  • Murder Out of Turn

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 2

    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 -- ...

  • A Pinch of Poison

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 3

    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 comparis...

  • Hanged For a Sheep

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 5

    Mrs. North must protect her aunt from being poisoned -- whether she likes it or not Pamela North has never worried about making sense. When she has a thought, she expresses it, and if no one in the room knows what she’s talking about, it’s no tro...

  • Death on the Aisle

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 4

    Mr. and Mrs. North win front-row seats to a murder on Broadway Dorian Hunt intends to marry Lt. William Weigand, and she doesn’t care how many murderers get in the way. Every time they’ve tried to tie the knot, her fiancé has let Jerry and Pamel...

  • Death Takes a Bow

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 6

    JERRY NORTH HAS STAGE FRIGHT -- WHEN THE STAGE IS A SETTING FOR MURDER! North Publications' author, Victor Leeds Sproul, was an international bon vivant with a malicious wit -- a man who made everyone he met feel slightly ridiculous. And when he f...

  • Killing the Goose

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 7

    Mrs. North comes to the aid of a young boy accused of murdering his beloved Cleo Harper is nineteen, and pretty enough to catch any boy’s eye. But when the police find her, there’s a gash in her throat and blood on her clothes. Cleo’s been dead...

  • Payoff for the Banker

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 8

    “One of the funniest and most satisfactory mysteries in this excellent series” set in 1940s Manhattan (The New Yorker). When he saw the Zeroes on his tail, Rick Hunter knew he had two choices: He could land on the carrier, inviting a Japanese att...

  • Death of a Tall Man

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 9

    A Manhattan doctor dies of unnatural causes in this sophisticated mystery starring a sleuthing husband and wife. Dr. Andrew Gordon is an orderly man, and the women who work in his office can predict his movements as regularly as clockwork. So when Gr...



  • Murder Within Murder

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 10

    PAM AND JERRY MIXED THE DRYEST MARTINIS, ENTERTAINED THE WITTIEST FRIENDS -- AND SOLVED THE VERY BEST OF CRIMES! Now Pam and Jerry North, those dashing sleuths of café society, have teamed up with Homicide's Lieutenant Weigand, and everything -...

  • Murder Is Served

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 12

    SHE WAS A PERFECT LADY -- ACCUSED OF PERFECT MURDER! Tony Mott's murder left his widow sumptuously wealthy. And Pamela Mott had other reasons to kill the playboy restaurateur. Clearly, murder a la carte. But for Pam and Jerry North, the culprit ...

  • The Dishonest Murderer

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 13

    The Dishonest Murderer, first published in 1949 and book no. 13 in the Mr. and Mrs. North series, finds the couple attempting to solve the case of a murdered U.S. senator, a case which may involve members of the senator’s own family.This Mr. & ...

  • Murder in a Hurry

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 14

    A pet-shop owner is killed in his store, and Mr. and Mrs. North take it personally A smart businessman would never think to open a pet shop in the inconspicuous patch of Greenwich Village known as West Kepp Street, but J. K. Halder isn’t here ...

  • Murder Comes First

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 15

    THAT SLEUTHING-AND-SOLVING PAIR ARE BACK -- WHERE HOME LIFE MEETS HOMICIDE, AND LOVE ISN'T ALWAYS LOVELY. 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. ...

  • Dead As a Dinosaur

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 16

    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 perso...

  • Curtain for a Jester

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 18

    The murder of a notorious practical joker is no laughing matter in this “excellent series” starring a husband-and-wife detective team (The New Yorker). Byron Wilmot will do anything for a laugh. He’s a legend of practical jokes, notorious for o...

  • Death Has a Small Voice

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 17

    Before he dies, a murdered burglar puts Mrs. North in mortal danger The thief struts toward Broadway, confident his luck has finally begun to turn. Just a few hours earlier, he had been as scared as a trapped rat, cowering in a bathroom, hoping the h...

  • Key to Death

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 19

    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...

  • Death of an Angel

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 20

    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 spo...



  • Voyage into Violence

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 21

    The sleuthing couple’s hopes for a carefree cruise to Havana are sunk by a killer on board . . . Stepping out of her stateroom, Pamela North is rather disappointed to see a man with a sword. She had hoped this cruise would be a respite fr...

  • Long Skeleton

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 22

    When a television hostess is killed in their hotel, Mr. and Mrs. North investigate the murder of America’s girl next door From coast to coast, everyone in America knows the smiling face of Amanda Towne. The most celebrated interviewer on television...

  • Murder Is Suggested

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 23

    HE WAS AN EXPERT ON HYPNOSIS -- AND DEAD SET TO EXPERIMENT! The murder of wealthy psychology professor Jameson Elwell was as mystifying as his brilliant theories on post-hypnotic suggestion. Had he gone too far? Was one of his willing subjects pro...

  • The Judge Is Reversed

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 24

    THE CHILL WAS BARELY OFF THEIR MARTINIS WHEN THE CALL CAME FROM MANHATTAN HOMICIDE Pam and Jerry North left at once for the scene of a baffling murder -- the murder of none other than the impeccable John Blanchard, respected tennis tournament offi...

  • The Scent of Murder

    in Garden of Deadly Delights

    A DAZZLING BOUQUET OF MYSTERY AND MURDER Here, amid the lush, heady beauty of a garden setting, everything's coming up roses...or turning up corpses. Focusing on crime that flourishes amid the flora, this blooming collection of 19 tales provides m...

  • Cat of Dreams

    in More Mystery Cats

    Cats and crime make an irresistible combination in this second volume of Mystery Cats. Bestselling author Lilian Jackson Braun uses her favorite breed, the Siamese, to chill us with a tale of a sinister violin-playing villain who gets his comeuppance...

  • Murder Has Its Points

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 25

    THE GUEST LIST WAS DISTINGUISHED -- BUT THE GUEST OF HONOR WAS A PAYNE IN THE NECK! Novelist Anthony Payne's murder didn't shock the stage and literary luminaries who graced the glamorous gathering. Was it the jealous ex-wife? . . . the irate auth...

  • Murder by the Book

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 26

    THE NORTHS HEAD SOUTH TO A CHIC RESORT -- AND A CLEVER, COLD-BLOODED MURDER Fishing to feed lazy pelicans didn't make much sense to Jerry, especially on vacation. But Pam was having a marvelous time. Until she found Dr. Edmund Piersal, a forensic ...

  • The Old Die Young

    It’s curtains for a vain actor in this Nathan Shapiro whodunit -- the final book written by the coauthor of the “excellent” Mr. and Mrs. North series (The New Yorker).  Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan’s finest, ...

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  • Untidy Murder

    A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery - 11

    When a magazine editor falls from his window, the case lands in the laps of Mr. and Mrs. North The body hits the pavement at 12:25 p.m., but Dorian Hunt doesn’t know a thing about it. She has come to the offices of Esprit magazine to deliver some s...

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Frances Lockridge; Richard Lockridge has published 30 books.

Frances Lockridge; Richard Lockridge does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Untidy Murder, was published in February 1996.

The first book by Frances Lockridge; Richard Lockridge, The Norths Meet Murder, was published in January 1940.

Yes. Frances Lockridge; Richard Lockridge has 1 series.
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