They're all ready to pop out of this potpourri of perilous predicaments from the Queen of the Whimsical Whodunit. Featuring all her favorite sleuths - Max Bittersohn and Sarah Kelling, Professor Peter Shandy, August Fox - and the eccentric enclaves of New England's cities and countryside, these short stories are packed with wacky, wonderful humor and good old-fashioned suspense.
There's murder in a massage parlor, dreadful doings at a British dinner party, larceny for sale at a general store, sinister schemes at Balaclava College, and merry mayhem from Boston to Maine - in this grab bag of fun-filled mysteries, which includes five never-before-published tales of murder most foul.
Contents: • Homecoming (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn) • Monique • Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy) • Fifty Acres of Prime Seaweed • It Was an Awful Shame • The Mysterious Affair of the Beaird-Wynnington Dirigible Airship (Augustus Fox) • A Snatch in Time • Clean Slate • The Felonious Courtship of Miles Peabody • Force of Habit • Better a Cat • Lady Patterly’s Lover • Journey for Lady G. • Assignment: Marriage • More Like Martine • The Dastardly Dilemma of the Vicious Vaudevillian (Augustus Fox)
Charlotte MacLeod, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, was the multi-award-winning author of over thirty acclaimed novels. Her series featuring detective Professor Peter Shandy, America's homegrown Hercule Poirot, delivers "generous dollops of...warmth, wit, and whimsy" (San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). But fully a dozen novels star her popular husband-and-wife team of Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn. And he…
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