An Owl Too Many

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
An Owl Too Many
by Charlotte Macleod

Meet Professor Peter Shandy. He, like most Professors at Balaclava Agricultural College, Farms. But he also has a very strange hobby. Detecting. And not just any kind of it either, it usually involves a murder. So, no big surprise when a so-called site engineer gets pulled up in a net, stabbed to death in the back of the neck, and gets dropped back down, out of the tree, like a hot potato, right? Well, not really. So how, later in the book, do the Norse President of the college and Professor Shandy find themselves being swept down a swollen river in a runway Tugboat? Well, you will just have to read this totally awesome book to find out.

I thought that this book was great. The characters were clearly well planned and thought out. I mean, for example, the Norse president, Thorkjeld Svenson. Said to be just as tall and burly as his Viking ancestors, who, like most Norsemen, can be extremely frightening at times. Then there is Professor Shandy. He has a wife and one cat, invented the Balaclava Buster. Those two along with countless others have back grounds from other books and this one. So to get the full effect of the characters, you need to read four or five Peter Shandy mysteries, by Charlotte Macleod.

The plot and story are stupendous. Not only is it a murder mystery, but it is also a mystery involving financial fraud. As you will find out when you read this. It is based around a person who has just inherited a bunch of money from her Grandfather. It involves two other people. One trying at all costs to get money and support out of her, and keep her from helping the other the other. The other, trying to keep the support they already have.

I hope that you will enjoy this book as much as I did , and that you will check out more from books from the same series from the library. Enjoy!

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