Something the Cat Dragged In, Charlotte MacLeod
Something the Cat Dragged In, Charlotte MacLeod
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Something the Cat Dragged In

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

A horticulturist and amateur sleuth roots out an irritating professor's killer in the Nero Award–winning mystery series.

An unpleasant man in every respect, university professor Herbert Ungley is exceedingly vain. One morning, his landlady catches her cat coming in with Ungley's hairpiece between its teeth. It's clear something has happened to the old grouch, because he would never be caught without his toupee. Ungley is found in the yard behind his social club, with his head bashed in and his baldness plain for the world to see. Although the police are content to call it an accident, sleuthing horticulturalist Peter Shandy is unconvinced, and finds there are too many unanswered questions. How did Ungley come to have such a bulging bank account? Who was Ungley's long-lost heir, and what did he have to do with the professor's lost hair? And whose is the second body in the woods? Shandy must answer these questions and more if he's to find who pulled the rug out from the balding corpse.

About Charlotte MacLeod

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lyn

I love Professor Shandy and the Balaclava Agricultural College characters. Ottermole, President Svenson, Harry Goulson and so many more. This story begins with, of course, Edmund, the cat who brings in something to Mrs. Lomax (Professor Shandy's cleaning lady). She thinks at first it's a mouse but i......more

“Something The Cat Dragged In”, 1983, is fourth in Eastern-Canadian Charlotte MacLeod’s imaginative series. She thought out even tertiary personages so well, she concocted the possibility of bringing them to the forefront of varied volumes. You recognize them several books later, recall their salien......more

This one was back to the old Shandy style. I loved the twists and turns in this one. Though I figured out what was off pretty quickly, I had the why all wrong and the who was obvious but it made no sense... until it did.......more

Goodreads review by Gary

A fun read/listen. Sadly, there are only 6 more books in the series. Others have done a good job recapping the plot. Prof. Shandy and lots of wonderful characters populate this mystery.......more

Goodreads review by Charles

RTF......more