The Corpse in Oozaks Pond, Charlotte MacLeod
The Corpse in Oozaks Pond, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Corpse in Oozak's Pond

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

A copycat crime on Groundhog Day brings out Professor Peter Shandy's inner sleuth in this Edgar Award finalist from the internationally bestselling author.

The rural town of Balaclava greets Groundhog Day as an excuse for one last cold-weather fling. The students and faculty of the local agricultural college drink cocoa, throw snowballs, and when the temperature allows, ice skate. But Oozak's Pond is not quite frozen this year, and as the celebrations reach their peak, the students see someone bobbing through the ice. Long past help, the drowning victim is badly decomposed and dressed in an old-fashioned frock coat with a heavy rock in each pocket.

First on the scene is Peter Shandy, horticulturalist and—when the college requires it—detective. But solving this nineteenth-century murder mystery will take more than Shandy's knack for growing rutabagas. Relying on his wife's expertise in local history, the professor dives headfirst into a gilded-age whodunit that cloaks secrets potent enough to kill.

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 September 10, 2023

Review to follow. Meanwhile I'll just say that I found this to be one of the most entertaining volumes in the Peter Shandy humorous mystery series. Reading the series in order is fun but each volume can stand alone. This one from the literary talent of Charlotte MacLeod features: A convoluted mystery......more

Goodreads review by Karen on March 16, 2025

The annual Balaclava Agricultural College's Groundhog Day event was in full swing when a body broke through the thin ice on Oozak's Pond. While the students, faculty, and townsfolk were shunted back to their normal daily tasks, Professor Peter Shandy immediately took the lead in dealing with the bod......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on January 01, 2017

I gave the late Charlotte MacLeod a chance to redeem herself after the slipshod ending of Something The Cat Dragged In and the utter silliness of The Curse of the Giant Hogweed. Thankfully, this sixth entry in the Peter Shandy mysteries returns to a better plotted mystery than the last two books, an......more

Goodreads review by Chautona on September 02, 2024

This one might be the best (except maybe for the first). While this is a play-fair mystery with every bit of info needed for us to figure out who done what and why, I totally missed a couple of things I should have gotten and therefore... nope. She got me almost to the very end. I finally went, "Oh,......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on February 13, 2015

I was disappointed with “The Corpse In Oozak’s Pond” after finishing “The Palace Guard”; which was phenomenal. The previous Peter novel too, raised the roof on the unexpected; a medieval fantasy! This time, I did like acquainting a far region of university terrain. Discovering a corpse in that pond......more