Category Archives: Partners in Crime

MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD (1932) by Stuart Palmer

Posted on 17 August 2012 by

This book features one of the first, and funniest, examples of that mystery mainstay, the spinster sleuth. From Mary Roberts Rinehart’s plucky one-off heroines to the more professional investigating of Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple and Patricia Wentworth’s Maud Silver (both first … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 Alphabet of Crime, 2012 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge, Campus Crime, Craig Rice, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Hildegarde Withers, New York, Partners in Crime, Scene of the crime, Screwball, Stuart Palmer | 20 Comments

NECESSARY EVIL (1965) by Kelley Roos

Posted on 3 November 2011 by

During the 1940s married amateur sleuths Jeff and Haila Troy appeared in a handful of screwball mysteries by husband-and-wife authors Audrey Kelley and William Roos, who signed themselves ‘Kelley Roos’ on these books.  They published very little in the following … Continue reading →

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DEATH ON THE AISLE (1942) by Frances and Richard Lockridge

Posted on 28 October 2011 by

This is the fourth book in the long-running series featuring married sleuths Mr and Mrs North, written by husband-and-wife authors Richard and Frances Lockridge. The Jerry and Pam North characters first appeared in book form in a collection of lightly … Continue reading →

Posted in Dashiell Hammett, Mrs & Mrs Smith, Partners in Crime, Patrick Quentin, Richard and Frances Lockridge, The Thin Man, Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge 2011 | 6 Comments