Perhaps you have noted (from earlier entries on this blog) my liking for vintage novels. And my love of used bookstores. Yup. This book is a vintage little nugget from my Idaho used bookstore plunder.
Frances and Richard Lockridge, a husband and wife author team, wrote this long-running couple mystery starring Pam and Jerry North. The Lockridges published the first Pam and Jerry mystery in 1936. This particular story, "Murder Within Murder" was published in 1946 (my daddy was just a little boy!).
In this story, tight-laced Miss Amelia Gibson is poisoned in the New York Public Library...and her murder is very similar to another murder that took place years earlier. Pam and Jerry get involved because Jerry had just hired Miss Gibson to do some research for him.
This was a tight little mystery with some very charming bantering between husband and wife--that snappy 40's type of dialogue that seems so quaint to us these days. It was a pleasure to read.
Bad language: none
Sex: none
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