An Owl Too Many, Charlotte MacLeod
An Owl Too Many, Charlotte MacLeod
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An Owl Too Many

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

Professor Peter Shandy returns in "a high-flying farce with humor that ranges from broad slapstick to quiet witticisms. . . . This murder most fowl is a hoot" (Publishers Weekly).

Emory Emmerick comes to Balaclava Agricultural University as a scout for a television station. Although the faculty and students are hardly ready for prime time, Emmerick's interest is in environmental programming—a subject that inspires even the driest Balaclava professor to wax poetic. In his search for material, Emmerick joins Peter Shandy and a few of his colleagues on the annual owl-count. And though the television producer's loud mouth and heavy feet make him a dismal birdwatcher, none of the academics expect him to make a fatal blunder. Chasing what appears to be a badly lost snowy owl, Emmerick stumbles into a trap that yanks him into a tree. By the time the professors reach him, he's been stabbed to death. Discovering that the snowy owl was nothing more than a handful of feathers attached to a fishing pole, Shandy concludes that Emmerick was murdered. Plenty of people might like to kill a television producer, but which would-be killer had the gall to make the helpless Nyctea scandiaca an accomplice?

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 Charles on March 07, 2023

Intriguing, humorous mystery By Charles van Buren on February 27, 2018 Format: Kindle Edition A well written, humorous mystery full of interesting, quirky characters. Mabe a bit too quirky for belief which coupled with the frequently absurd use of hypnosis in the plot makes this a not very realistic st......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on February 06, 2017

Balaclava College’s annual owl count leads to the death of an engineer, Emory Emmerick, brought in to help build the college’s new television station. But even more shocking than Emmerick’s death in a booby trap strung up in the woods was the emergence of the fact that no one at the engineering firm......more

Goodreads review by Lyn on August 02, 2020

HILARIOUS HIJINX!!! When a book starts out with adults out tracking and counting owls at night and end up with a dead body--what else would you expect? And after all, the dead body was a person no one liked and it turns out he was an imposter--a con man. A very unlucky one, sadly. That'll teach him.......more

Goodreads review by Karen on March 17, 2025

This is really a continuation of the story from Vane Pursuit, focusing on Winifred Binks. Miss Binks who helped Peter Shandy and Cronkite Swope in their hours of need in the previous novel, is now the acknowledged heiress of the Binks fortune. She has taken up a position at Balaclava Agricultural Co......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 13, 2018

It's the night of the annual owl count at Balaclava college, but unfortunately the construction engineer for the new television station tags along with Peter Shandy's group. When the man is murdered, Shandy and the college president are shocked to learn that the construction company claims never to......more