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melissa_who_reads's review against another edition
3.0
This one takes place in Pam's family ... her aunt has had a bout of arsenic poisoning, and Jerry is out of town, so Pam arrives to stay at her wealthy aunt's with her two new cats. The aunt had four husbands, and so there are a myriad of cousins and children of cousins around. Husband #4 has just been pushed out and declared a waster, so when he shows up dead in the breakfast room - it's not so much who had motive to kill him, but which one actually did?
Learned something new: no weather reports in NYC during World War II -- apparently, the National Weather Service only gave weather reports to the military, as they were afraid weather reports would aid the enemy (particularly U-Boats lurking off the East Coast).
Learned something new: no weather reports in NYC during World War II -- apparently, the National Weather Service only gave weather reports to the military, as they were afraid weather reports would aid the enemy (particularly U-Boats lurking off the East Coast).
slferg's review
4.0
I really like this mystery series. I discovered it several years ago, but lost track of it and rediscovered it as ebooks. I am so glad it's finally on ebook.
Pamela North has unusual thought processes that her hysband, Jerry, can often follow - but not always. Nor can their friends, Lt. Bill Weigand, homicide detective, and his assistant Mullins. There are always cats involved in these books, the cats have a part to play but not always the starring role, but they are fun.
Pamela North has unusual thought processes that her hysband, Jerry, can often follow - but not always. Nor can their friends, Lt. Bill Weigand, homicide detective, and his assistant Mullins. There are always cats involved in these books, the cats have a part to play but not always the starring role, but they are fun.
bev_reads_mysteries's review
4.0
Hanged for a Sheep by Frances & Richard Lockridge is one of the many adventures of Pam & Jerry North and their friend, Lieutenant Bill Weigand. The Lockridge books are my mystery comfort-reading--light, fun, madcap. Just what's needed on a dreary fall day when one just wants to curl up and not have to think too hard.
This outing finds Jerry away on business and Pam visiting her Aunt Flora. Just a nice family visit. Well, not really. Aunt Flora tells Pam that someone has tried to poison her....with arsenic. She wants Pam, as the "family private eye," to investigate, but not to tell the police. Aunt Flora has been married four times and had children by several of the husbands...and Aunt Flora has pots of money. So, there are plenty of suspects to go around. Then Aunt Flora's latest husband winds up dead from a pistol shot. What exactly is going on at this little family visit? As Lieutenant Weigand puts it (once he's called in): "So there we are. Nowhere much as yet. One poisoned, one dead, one missing; suspects to the right of us, suspects to the left of us. Everybody with opportunity; almost everybody with motive. A pistol missing; a bottle missing; a hunch missing. So Mullins and I go back to work."
I enjoyed this thoroughly as I always do enjoy the Lockridge stories. Pam is...well...Pam--with her brain running about three steps ahead and making leaps in the conversation that set heads spinning. But whether you understand her logic or not, she's generally right and often provides Bill Weigand with just the clue he needs to sew up another "screwy" murder. As his Sergeant Mullins says, "They're always screwy when you've got the Norths." He's right, but screwy in all the right ways. Four stars out five.
This outing finds Jerry away on business and Pam visiting her Aunt Flora. Just a nice family visit. Well, not really. Aunt Flora tells Pam that someone has tried to poison her....with arsenic. She wants Pam, as the "family private eye," to investigate, but not to tell the police. Aunt Flora has been married four times and had children by several of the husbands...and Aunt Flora has pots of money. So, there are plenty of suspects to go around. Then Aunt Flora's latest husband winds up dead from a pistol shot. What exactly is going on at this little family visit? As Lieutenant Weigand puts it (once he's called in): "So there we are. Nowhere much as yet. One poisoned, one dead, one missing; suspects to the right of us, suspects to the left of us. Everybody with opportunity; almost everybody with motive. A pistol missing; a bottle missing; a hunch missing. So Mullins and I go back to work."
I enjoyed this thoroughly as I always do enjoy the Lockridge stories. Pam is...well...Pam--with her brain running about three steps ahead and making leaps in the conversation that set heads spinning. But whether you understand her logic or not, she's generally right and often provides Bill Weigand with just the clue he needs to sew up another "screwy" murder. As his Sergeant Mullins says, "They're always screwy when you've got the Norths." He's right, but screwy in all the right ways. Four stars out five.
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