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
• Monique
• Rest You Merry
• Fifty Acres of Prime Seaweed
• It Was an Awful Shame
• The Mysterious Affair of the Beaird-Wynnington Dirigible Airship
• 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
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
• Monique
• Rest You Merry
• Fifty Acres of Prime Seaweed
• It Was an Awful Shame
• The Mysterious Affair of the Beaird-Wynnington Dirigible Airship
• 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