Richard and Frances Lockridge
Richard and Frances Lockridge began writing detective fiction in 1940, using a
husband-and-wife detective team - Pam and Jerry North - who had already featured in some
non-detective magazine short stories. Pam and Jerry were New Yorkers, whose police foil
(and later Jerry's brother-in-law) was Lieutenant William Weigand, but later they were
joined by Merton Heimrich, an upstate sheriff. Jerry was a bright, solid and reliable
publisher, Pam was a slightly daffy society hostess who had flashes of inspiration which
usually put her in danger of her life. The detective stories starring the Norths ended
with the death of Frances Lockridge in 1963, but Richard Lockridge continued writing about
other setectives for some years afterwards.
Bibliography:
The Norths Meet Murder (1940) - Reissued by Tom Stacey Reprints, London 1973
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