- A mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings.
- A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village, thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
- Bumbling murder-mystery writer Jeff Troy and new wife Nancy move into their basement apartment in Greenwich Village apartment a day before their furniture arrives. Jeff hopes to absorb some local color for his new book. In a local bistro they run into loudly aggressive Louis Kaufman, whom Nancy overhears arranging a rendezvous at their address. This leads to an altercation with Jeff on the bar room floor. Returning home they find that Kaufman has been knocked out by their lucky horseshoe and drowned in the bathtub. Virtually everyone they meet coincidentally lives in or is connected to the building and all appear to be suspects or red herrings in the murder. The only non-suspect is "Old Hickory," a turtle that is a relic from the building's infamous history as a former speakeasy who walks freely throughout the house. Jeff and Nancy play amateur sleuths in order to gather material for his book and catch a killer in the bargain.—duke1029
- As hack murder mystery novelist Jeff Troy wants instead to write a Greenwich Village based love story, his wife, Nancy Troy, finds a characterful i.e. run down Greenwich Village basement apartment as their new abode so that they can experience life in the setting in its full glory. There are odd enough happenings at the apartment on the day they move in including Anne Stafford, an old friend of Nancy's who coincidentally also lives in the building, not seemingly happy to see her, and Jeff eventually recognizing their exact unit as a former speakeasy he used to frequent, but those odd happenings are topped by Nancy secretly overhearing a conversation of a man they don't know talking about meeting someone later in their exact apartment unit, and in the morning the police being alerted to what ends up being a murdered dead body in their unit's back yard. Jeff and Nancy become enmeshed in the murder investigation often against their want, with Jeff even considered a prime suspect, leading to Jeff reimagining his next novel as this true life murder mystery. But their first priority becomes to protect the other as their loved one as they may be the murderer's next target if they get too close to the truth.—Huggo
- A writer and his wife move into their new basement apartment at 13 Gay Street, Greenwich Village. The whole house has a sinister air and the other tenants seem hostile and frightened. The discovery of a corpse outside the couple's window doesn't help the atmosphere.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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