Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: not Lockridges' best

After reading one of the Lockridges' Pam and Jerry North books, I ordered six more. As many reviewers have said, the prose is graceful and the ambiance civilized -- no gratuitous sex or violence (emphasis on gratuitous). Not so this book, Murder is Served: the conversation is stilted, the clues initially add up to one character as being framed and another character as the one who has set up the frame. About 7/8 through the book, however, a third character emerges as the villain, on far less evidence or stated motivation. Rehashing the clues and watching the cats serve as filler -- much too much filler. The quality of the plot is NOT what keeps people reading this series, but quality of plot, as well as prose style and conversation, takes a big downturn in Murder is Served.