Main line mysteries Books in Order
The Main line mysteries series by Richard Lockridge includes 67 books published between 1940–1993.
Publication order
In the order the books were originally released.
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Buy on Amazon1970 · Richard Lockridge
Professor Emeritus Walter Brinkley finds General Philip Armstrong's body in the back seat of his car after a university dinner, his head bashed in…
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Buy on Amazon1993 · Richard Lockridge
Winifred and Orson Otis go swimming nude before dawn only to later discover the dead body of Winifred's uncle, followed by another corpse. Captain…
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Buy on Amazon1953 · Richard Lockridge
A beautiful blonde is dead when a handsome young Marine, just out of the service, meets her on a lane in Westchester County. She had a younger…
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Buy on Amazon1974 · Richard Lockridge
Clayton Carter, a top reporter and head of IBC's news department, is killed when his personal television-monitoring gadget is tampered with.…
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Professor Walter Brinkley hosts a cocktail party for the newly-wed Craigs, unaware it will lead to murder in quiet Westchester County. When Caroline…
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Old Tom, a thin and shabby handyman known as the self-appointed gardener of Van Brunt, New York, collapses on the driveway of Captain Merton Heimrich…
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Buy on Amazon1971 · Richard Lockridge
Inspector Merton Heimrich takes a rare vacation, a Mediterranean cruise, after his wife Susan contracts pneumonia. Among the passengers is Sir Ronald…
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Buy on Amazon1976 · Richard Lockridge
Sam Jackson is run over twice in a country inn parking lot on an icy December night. Inspector M. L. Heimrich has a personal stake, as Jackson was a…
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Companion & related books
Short-story collections and companion titles in this series.
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Buy on Amazon1940 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Mrs. North decides an old top-floor studio would be a good party venue and takes her husband to check it out, only to open a door and find a murdered…
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Buy on Amazon1946 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Dr. Andrew Gordon, an orderly man whose office staff can predict his every move, is found bludgeoned to death in his office, though no one was seen…
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Buy on Amazon1947 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
When Dorian Hunt visits the offices of the magazine Esprit to deliver drawings, she becomes entangled in death, kidnapping, fire, threats, and a ride…
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Buy on Amazon1948 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Playboy restaurateur Tony Mott is murdered, and his lovely, now wealthy widow is the obvious suspect. Pam and Jerry North, sleuths who first appeared…
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Buy on Amazon1949 · Elizabeth Daly
Alice Dunbar, a proper upper East Side woman with a boring life, disappears shortly after the death of an elderly aunt. Henry Gamadge suspects there…
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Buy on Amazon1950 · Richard Lockridge
On a foggy afternoon, a child goes missing near the Victorian house where Marta and Scott Bromwell live with Scott's mother Lucretia. While…
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Buy on Amazon1950 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Eccentric multi-millionaire J. K. Halder, who ran a Greenwich Village pet shop as a hobby, is found murdered and folded into one of the shop's cages.…
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Pamela North's three maiden aunts, Thelma, Lucinda, and Pennina Whitsett, visit childhood friend Grace Logan and find her distraught. When Grace's…
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Buy on Amazon1952 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Dr. Orpheus Preson, a mammologist and bestselling author, claimed someone was trying to drive him crazy, though police and family believed he staged…
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Buy on Amazon1952 · Richard Lockridge
Recovering from a gunshot wound, Captain Heimrich vacations at a seaside hotel in Key West but becomes involved in a new murder case. Suspects…
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Buy on Amazon1953 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Byron Wilmot, known for elaborate practical jokes including once faking a kidnapping with a dummy realistic enough to fool police, invites Pamela and…
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Buy on Amazon1954 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Respected lawyer Forbes Ingraham is found dead in his office, with a gold key to the firm's back door as the main clue. The key had belonged to the…
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Buy on Amazon1955 · Richard Lockridge
At a fiery town meeting in Van Brunt, disputes over zoning and local influence turn fatal when the town's fire house burns down, and town supervisor…
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At a New Year's Eve party at John Halley's Westchester County country house, a snowstorm isolates the guests and the power fails before Halley's body…
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Buy on Amazon1956 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
On the night his girlfriend agrees to marry him, John Hayward returns home to be accused of murdering a woman, Nora Evans, whom he has never met.…
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1956 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Sailing to Havana and Nassau aboard the Carib Queen, Pamela North hopes for a break from crime but instead encounters a sword-bearing passenger,…
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Buy on Amazon1957 · Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Ann Dillard is stood up by her fiancé Clark and receives a vague note, coinciding with the murder of playboy Sonny Underwood. Wondering if Clark's…
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Frequently asked questions
What order should I read the Main line mysteries books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with “Think of death”. Start with “Think of death.”
How many books are in the Main line mysteries series?
We list 67 books by Richard Lockridge , published between 1940–1993.
Where can I buy the Main line mysteries books?
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Reading order compiled from author/publisher guidance and verified bibliographic data. Spotted an error? We continuously correct the catalog.