Dead As a Dinosaur

Dead As a Dinosaur by Lockridge, Frances Louise Davis. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780060925109.

When a paleontologist is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North go digging for his killer. The office of Dr. Orpheus Preson is filled with remains, the bones of long dead dinosaurs. He waves one of them at the NYPD detective, demanding the police stop the person whos been sending workmen to his house - an endless parade of bricklayers, butlers, French tutors, and tree surgeons, none of whom Preson hired, and all of whom expect payment. Theres nothing law enforcement can do, which means its time to call the only two people in New York who can help: Pamela and Jerry North. A fashionable literary couple whos made a habit of solving mysteries between martinis, the Norths have known Dr. Preson since Jerry published his first book. The amateur detectives vow to do what they can for the perturbed paleontologist, but its too little too late. When Dr. Preson is found murdered, the Norths will find that the poor man had more than one kind of skeleton in his closet.