title: MURDER SUGGESTED (Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery)
author: Lockridge
description: 1984 Pocket Books mass market PB., by Richard and Frances Lockridge. A Mr,&amp; Mrs. North mystery. A wealthy professor is murdered. Was he killed for his money or his theories?
zlib_text: > _Reunion in Death_  
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  > In Death [16]  
  > J. D. Robb  
  > Penguin (2002)  
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  > Rating: | ★★★★☆  
  > Tags: | Mystery & Detective  
    
  # Chapter 1
  
    
    
    
  
  Murder was work. Death was a serious chore for the killer, the victim, for the
  survivors. And for those who stood for the dead. Some went about the job
  devotedly, others carelessly.  
  
  And for some, murder was a labor of love.  
  
  When he left his Park Avenue condo for his regular morning stroll, Walter C.
  Pettibone was blissfully unaware he was in his last hours of life. He was a
  robust sixty and a canny businessman who'd increased his family's already
  considerable fortune through flowers and sentiment.  
  
  He was wealthy, healthy, and just over a year before had acquired a young,
  blonde wife who had the sexual appetite of a Doberman in heat and the brains
  of a cabbage.  
  
  His world, in Walter C. Pettibone's opinion, was just exactly so.  
  
  He had work he loved, two children from his first marriage who would on