Mr and Mrs North Books in Order

Planning a cocktail party in their empty upstairs apartment, Jerry and Pamela North discover a murdered man in the bathtub. Their curiosity draws them into a police investigation that disrupts their familiar Greenwich Village social life.

Lois Winston dies after drinking a cocktail at a fashionable hotel rooftop restaurant. Lieutenant William Weigand investigates the poisoning with Jerry and Pamela North, whose involvement places them close to a killer operating amid Manhattan society.

A country vacation with friends turns deadly when Lieutenant Weigand discovers Helen Wilson stabbed beside a path. Jerry and Pamela North must examine the tensions within their holiday group before the murderer has another opportunity to strike.

A wealthy theatrical backer is found dead in the seats of a Broadway theater. Jerry and Pamela North join Lieutenant Weigand's investigation, probing the people behind the production and the motives hidden beneath its public performances.

Pamela North's formidable Aunt Flora believes someone is trying to poison her with arsenic. Determined to protect the difficult older woman, Pamela must make sense of a threat complicated by Flora's temperament and refusal to cooperate.

Publisher Jerry North introduces author Victor Sproul at a New York lecture, only to see him collapse and die. Suspected poisoning and mysteriously stolen lecture notes give Pamela and Lieutenant Weigand an unusually puzzling investigation.

Nineteen-year-old Cleo Harper is stabbed in a coffee shop after arguing with Franklin Martinelli. Witnesses and his feelings for her make him the obvious suspect, but Pamela North doubts the apparently straightforward case against the young man.

War widow Mary Hunter is rebuilding her life when she discovers a dead man in her new apartment. Suspected of murder, she turns to Jerry and Pamela North, whose investigation exposes troubling aspects of a banker's life.

Doctor Andrew Gordon is found bludgeoned in his office, although his nearby nurses saw no one enter or leave. Pamela North accompanies Lieutenant Weigand to the scene, where an apparently impossible crime conceals a very human motive.

Society woman Amelia Gipson dies from poison while researching a notorious murder case at the public library. Because she is one of Jerry North's authors, he and Pamela investigate a victim whose disagreeable nature supplied numerous enemies.

Artist Dorian Hunt arrives at a magazine office to discover that art director Paul Wilming has fallen from his window. Her husband, Lieutenant Weigand, enlists Jerry and Pamela North to investigate a death that threatens further violence.

Psychology professor John Leonard finds troubling hints of murderous hatred in talented student Peggy Mott's final paper. When her husband is stabbed, Jerry and Pamela North become involved in a campus case seemingly pointing directly at her.

Senator Bruce Kirkhill misses a New Year's Eve gathering and is found murdered in shabby clothes far from his usual surroundings. Jerry and Pamela North investigate a death whose circumstances conflict sharply with the senator's public identity.

Millionaire animal lover J. K. Halder is killed in the pet shop he maintains as a hobby. With only animals witnessing the crime, Jerry and Pamela North investigate a murder that touches their own affection for pets.

Pamela North's three disruptive aunts visit an old friend who suddenly dies while drinking tea. When the visitors are implicated in poisoning her, Pamela and Jerry must investigate the widow's death to protect their relatives from suspicion.

Paleontologist Orpheus Preson asks the Norths to stop an unexplained procession of workers arriving at his home. His subsequent murder turns a bizarre harassment problem into an investigation of secrets concealed beneath the scientist's respectable professional life.

A burglar escapes with a valuable piece of plastic, then is mortally attacked before reaching his destination. Mailing the stolen object to Pamela North draws her and Jerry into danger surrounding an item someone is willing to kill for.

Jerry and Pamela North attend a party hosted by notorious practical joker Byron Wilmot. When his secretary finds him apparently staging another gruesome prank, the discovery proves real, turning an evening of jokes into a murder investigation.

Deciding to prepare their wills, Jerry and Pamela North visit lawyer Forbes Ingraham, only for him to be found shot in his office. The murder draws them into another investigation complicated by the attorney's connections and clients.

Broadway star Naomi Shaw plans to leave a successful play to marry wealthy backer Bradley Fitch. His murder threatens both the wedding and production, drawing Jerry and Pamela North into a theatrical world with much at stake.

Jerry and Pamela North take a cruise to Havana and Nassau hoping for a peaceful holiday. A passenger's death by sword turns their ship's assortment of eccentric travelers, private investigators, and possible thieves into a field of suspects.

Escaping paint fumes at home, Jerry and Pamela North move into a hotel with their cat. Finding television interviewer Amanda Towne dead there draws them into the hidden rivalries surrounding a celebrity whose warmth exists chiefly on camera.

Celebrity psychologist Jameson Elwell calls the police after being shot but dies before naming his attacker. Rumors of hypnosis attract Jerry and Pamela North to Lieutenant Weigand's investigation, raising questions about who directed the fatal act.

Pamela North attends a cat show while considering a replacement for her beloved Siamese. When a judge accused of favoritism is found murdered, she and Jerry investigate the rivalries surrounding the competitive breeders and their coveted prizes.

Pamela North endures a publishing party for bestselling author Anthony Payne at the Hotel Dumont. When a gunman shoots the guest of honor, Pamela and Jerry pursue the killer behind an attack launched from a distance.

Vacationing in Key West, Pamela North goes to the waterfront to attract pelicans and discovers a physician shot dead on a pier. She and Jerry interrupt their winter escape to investigate the killing in unfamiliar surroundings.