Captain Cuttle 1927. He died at the Mirafiori stud, near Turin in 1932 after breaking his back in a freak accident. The name "Captain Cuttle" was taken from a character in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, Captain Edward Cuttle. It was subsequently applied to an LNER Class A3 locomotive, No. 2745 (BR number 60091), many of which class were named for racehorses. Captain Cuttle Captain Cuttle was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He ran only six times in a career which was restricted by chronic injury problems. He was the outstanding British colt of his generation, winning The Derby and
Mr. and Mrs. North Mr. and Mrs. North Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. The characters originated in 1930s vignettes written by Richard Lockridge for the "New York Sun", and he brought them back for short stories in "The New Yorker". These stories were collected in "Mr. and Mrs. North" (1936). Lockridge increased the readership after he teamed with his wife Frances on a novel, "The Norths Meet Murder"