The Curse of the Giant Hogweed, Charlotte MacLeod
The Curse of the Giant Hogweed, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Curse of the Giant Hogweed

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

Chasing a vile English plant, Professor Peter Shandy and his friends go on a most peculiar trip.

The giant hogweed, a creeping menace known for crushing the life out of any plant foolish enough to get in its way, has put the hedgerows and pastures of the English countryside in jeopardy. Fishermen find their streams clogged, young lovers are caught with rashes in embarrassing places, and the English nudist colony has been all but exterminated. Only Peter Shandy, the famed horticulturalist responsible for the world's finest rutabaga, can save the day. But when Shandy and his colleagues set out to find hogweed samples, they stumble into an unusually mystical adventure. Quite by accident, Shandy trips through a publican's portal, and finds himself conversing with a giant. Trapped in a land of castles, wizards, and knights, Shandy must use every scrap of his horticultural genius to get back home—lest the hogweed triumph in his absence.

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

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Goodreads review by Emily

Silly, absurd, fantastic! Of all of Charlotte MacLeod/Alisa Craig's mystery series, the Peter Shandy series is my favorite. None of them are Important Literature by any means. They are pure fluff, but oh, so much fun! A lot of people don't seem to appreciate this one, and it's understandable. The seri......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn

This was a solid WHAT is HAPPENING, but it grew on me. Peter Shandy stepped into a pub in Wales and time-traveled and had to sort things out with Iron Age lordlings and some evil hags? It was completely ridiculous. It was kind of fantastic. I’m pretty sure I haven’t ever read this one before. My favo......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne

Professors Peter Shandy, Daniel Stott and Tim Ames — not content with investigating malefaction in Balaclava County in western Massachusetts — get ensnared in a mystery in Wales when they head across the Atlantic where they’ve been summoned to deal with pestilential species called the hogweed. Someh......more