Title: Killing the goose
First published: 1944
Description: Cleo Harper is nineteen, and pretty enough to catch any boy’s eye. But when the police find her, there’s a gash in her throat and blood on her clothes. Cleo’s been dead for just a few minutes. She’d been eating lunch in a coffee shop when she was stabbed in the neck, and all the evidence paints Franklin Martinelli as the killer. Every kid in the neighborhood knew he loved her; every diner in the restaurant saw them arguing before she died. To the police, it’s cut and dried. But Pamela North isn’t convinced.

A vivacious, if occasionally scatterbrained, amateur sleuth, Mrs. North hears the story straight from her friend Lt. William Weigand, and she doesn’t believe a word of it. Her reasons may not make any sense, but Pamela is determined find the truth, even if nobody understands how she gets there.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Pam North (Fictitious character), Jerry North (Fictitious character), Married people, Women detectives, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New york (state), fiction, North, jerry (fictitious character), fiction, North, pam (fictitious character), fiction
Places: New York (State), New York