Mr and Mrs North – Literary Murder. ep57, 440126

On the way to see a movie, Pam remembers to tell Jerry about an important phone call. Why didn’t she write the message down? Do matchbooks or napkins count? As the North’s race home, we drop in on a conversation in a bar and a gan aster who is also interested in that missing matchbook with the phone number written on it. Extortion is in store, not to mention some revenge on Jerry North.

Later, Mr Lawrence finally visits the North’s face to face, but there’s confusion over an earlier phone message. When the extortionist shows up, sure he has the goods on a murder cover up, He doesn’t know why Jerry gets a laugh over the idea. Will there be trouble once the cops get hold of the scandal? The misunderstanding over the plot of an upcoming fiction novel turns real when Dutch Garber, the North’s extortionist, is found with a knife in him. ,

Pam and Jerry hit the streets to confront Axle, and find out who else knew that Dutch thought he had something to leverage. Misunderstandings prevail when Axle and the others think the Norths are doing some cover up of their own in Dutch’s death. It’s a matter of the thugs fearing that the Norths may bump each of them off, while the pressure is on to squeeze out the real killer.