*Rest You Merry* introduced Professor Peter Shandy of Balaclava Agricultural College (and proud inventor of the Balaclava Buster rutabaga) to admiring readers everywhere. His subsequent adventures have only confirmed what was so charmingly obvious from the first: Charlotte MacLeod's gift for the lighter side of mystery, where the wit is every bit as wicked as the villain. With a new introduction by the author, this edition marks the first hardcover publication in two decades of Peter Shandy's whimsical mystery debut.

Charlotte Macleod

New York: O. Penzler Books

Otto Penzler Books

United States, United States of America

New York, New York State, 1993

New York, c1993

1994

"The Armchair Detective Library."

For years, Professor Peter Shandy has been badgered in vain by Jemima Ames, Assistant Librarian and Annual Chairperson, to decorate his campus home for the Christmastime Grand Illumination, which is Balaclava Agricultural College's main fund raising event. Now he can hold out no longer. Goaded to madness, he buries his small brick house under an avalanche of plastic reindeer, flashing lights, and fake Santa Clauses, hooks up an amplifier blaring "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth," locks the switches at "on" and escapes to sea on a tramp steamer.
Shipwrecked and conscience-stricken, he crawls back to face his colleagues, and finds Jemima Ames dead on his living room floor. Police and security guards decide it's an accident, but Shandy suspects a crafty murder under the mistletoe. The good professor also suspects that he had better discover the truth without further wrecking the Illumination or the next corpse will be his....

Because Christmas Is Big Business At Balaclava Agricultural College, The Authorities Quickly Agree In Ruling The Death Of A Faculty Wife--sprawled Out On Professor Peter Shandy's Living Room Floor--an Accident, Although Shandy Is Not Convinced.

2023-06-28