Rest You Merry - Hardcover

MacLeod, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385142455 ISBN 13: 9780385142458

Publisher: Doubleday, 1978

Synopsis

CONTINUING THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF CLASSIC MYSTERIES BY AMERICAN MYSTERY AND NERO WOLFE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MacLEOD For years, Professor Peter Shandy has been badgered by Jemima Ames, Assistant Librarian and Annual Chairperson, to decorate his campus home for the 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 irate colleagues, and finds Jemima Ames dead on his living room floor. Police and security guards say it's an accident; Shandy says it's murder. President Thorkjeld Svenson says he'd better find out the truth without wrecking the Illumination...or the next corpse will be Shandy's.

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Review:

"The epitome of the 'cozy' mystery." --"Mostly Murder" "MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate and charming mystery." --"Publishers Weekly" "Charm, wit, and Holmesian logic." --"AudioFile"

The epitome of the cozy mystery. "Mostly Murder" MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate and charming mystery. "Publishers Weekly" Charm, wit, and Holmesian logic." "AudioFile""

The epitome of the cozy mystery. Mostly Murder MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate and charming mystery. Publishers Weekly Charm, wit, and Holmesian logic." AudioFile"

"The epitome of the 'cozy' mystery." --Mostly Murder "MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate and charming mystery." --Publishers Weekly "Charm, wit, and Holmesian logic." --AudioFile

About the Author:

Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children's book called Mystery of the White Knight. In Rest You Merry (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. The Family Vault (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, The Balloon Man, in 1998.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0385142455
• ISBN 13: 9780385142458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182