Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy, Book 1)

Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy, Book 1)

Charlotte MacLeod

Language: English

Pages: 152

ISBN: 0380475308

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Professor Peter Shandy finally succumbs to Jemima Ames, Chairperson for Balaclava Agricultural College's major fundraiser, the Grand Illumination. He buries his small brick house under an avalanche of tawdry plastic and escapes on a sea cruise. But he returns to find Jemima dead on his living room floor and a murder to solve.

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jacket over his uniform. He refused to take it off, perhaps because he realized the added bulk enhanced his already impressive appearance. He had his gun, his flashlight, and his notebook at the ready, but his ball-point pen wouldn’t write. Professor Shandy lent him a pencil and answered his question. “Yes. I haven’t touched her. She was obviously beyond help.” “How did she get here?” “I wish I knew. I’ve been away since Thursday evening myself. I hadn’t been in the house more than a few

what time it was, all right. She’d been eying the clock and making noises at Roger for at least half an hour before they left. Needless to say, she had one hell of a time dragging him away. Rog has the hots for me, in case you hadn’t noticed.” Shandy found that a highly improbable statement. It occurred to him that Adele must be twice Roger’s age. “I see, so that made you aware of the time.” “Me and everybody else. That’s what got Jemima fussing about having to go and be the boy on the burning

Scrabble and having drinks—you know Bob—when the chapel bell started banging away like mad. At first we thought it was some of the students putting on a show. Then we heard fire sirens and thought the marshmallow roast must have got out of hand, but we kept hearing more and all of a sudden Bob jumped up and yelled, ‘Christ! It’s the power plant.’ So then he grabbed his coat and ran. Jim ran straight after him, leaving me in the lurch as usual, but I wasn’t about to get stuck alone with Adele and

who could drink the most punch. They had this goofy punch, right, one bowl red and one bowl green. It was prob’ly just Kool-Aid or something, but anyway me and Tommy started mixing the two kinds together—” “Like father, like son,” Sheila murmured. “Never mind all that, JoJo. Professor Shandy doesn’t want to hear about your tummy ache.” “But if I hadn’t drunk all that punch, I wouldn’t have had to keep getting up and going to the bathroom,” the boy pointed out reasonably. “That’s how I saw the

woman. Yes or no?” “Peter, do you realize you could have any woman on this campus?” “Dash it, I don’t want any woman on this campus. I want you, to keep those she-wolves at bay.” “Is that all you want me for?” “No. Helen, what in God’s name am I am going to do?” Miss Marsh leaned back on the sofa, happening to encounter Shandy’s arm. She did not draw away and he did not encourage her to do so. It was quite a while before they again addressed the problem under discussion. When Helen did speak

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