The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (Peter Shandy Mysteries)

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Summary: Peter Shandy is the Greatest!
Review: After reading literally hundreds of mystery novels, I discovered Peter and Helen Shandy in Balaclava two years ago. Since then, every mystery that I read is held up to the Charlotte MacLeod standard. This series is like taking a vacation with a really fun group of friends. They're my favorite books in the world, I reread them all periodically. I can't wait until the next one!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderfull Book
Review: It's one of the best books MacLeod ever wrote. The more you get to know the characters of Peter and Helen Shandy, the more you're gonna love 'em

Rating:
Summary: Wonderfull Book
Review: It?s one of the best books MacLeod ever wrote. The more you get to know the characters of Peter and Helen Shandy, the more you?re gonna love ?em

Rating:
Summary: Peter Shandy is the Greatest!
Review: This is one of the weaker novels involving Professor Peter Shandy, his librarian-wife Helen, and the colorful folks at Balaclava Agricultural College. This time, a corpse turns up during a Groundhog Day ceremony, and college President Svenson once again calls on Professor Shandy to get to the bottom of the crime. Perhaps it is indicative of the complexity of the interrelationships among the characters that the author chose to put a geneaological chart in the front of the book. It doesn't help much. The characters' names are clever, but morphologically similar, as are some of their backgrounds. Several of the women in the town also resemble each other, adding to the confusion. This book is not leavened, as are others in this series, by much humor between Shandy and his wife, or with the colorful President Svenson. Cronkite Swope, ace reporter, is present, but the overall tone is of various people resenting each other for past or present transgressions. I did, however, like the groundhog character and Jane Austen, the Shandys' cat.

Rating:
Summary: Peter Shandy mystery marred by geneaological complexity
Review: This is one of the weaker novels involving Professor Peter Shandy, his librarian-wife Helen, and the colorful folks at Balaclava Agricultural College. This time, a corpse turns up during a Groundhog Day ceremony, and college President Svenson once again calls on Professor Shandy to get to the bottom of the crime. Perhaps it is indicative of the complexity of the interrelationships among the characters that the author chose to put a geneaological chart in the front of the book. It doesn't help much. The characters' names are clever, but morphologically similar, as are some of their backgrounds. Several of the women in the town also resemble each other, adding to the confusion. This book is not leavened, as are others in this series, by much humor between Shandy and his wife, or with the colorful President Svenson. Cronkite Swope, ace reporter, is present, but the overall tone is of various people resenting each other for past or present transgressions. I did, however, like the groundhog character and Jane Austen, the Shandys' cat.