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North's diamond discard is very telling - it would be a brave defender who would discard one from three small, so it's likely to be from length. If North has three hearts and five or more diamonds then there is no point is playing the spades in classical ace, small to the king and back to the queen style - you might just as well cash the top spades ending in dummy - then you will know where you stand. When North throws a reluctant club on the third spade then you have two main chances. 1) You can play off your two club winners and hope that either South has J or North has been squeezed already - that requires him to have both QJ, or 2) finesse against North's J immediately. If your suspicions are that North did indeed start with five diamonds then that will be your best chance, but it goes against the grain to play like that with 12 top tricks, doesn't it?
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