Read Series: Peter Shandy
by Author Charlotte MacLeod
Vane Pursuit (1990)
Vane Pursuit by Charlotte MacLeod is one of my loosely contrued academic mysteries. MacLeod has two sets of series characters: Professor Peter Shandy & his lovely librarian wife Helen and Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn. Both series are very literate and very funny and feature an eccentric cast of...
Wrack and Rune (1982)
Professor Peter Shandy of Balaclava Agricultural College saves the Horsefall farm when pranks escalate to murder. Reporter Cronkite Swope invents a Norse Curse, triggered by a disturbed runestone, when a farmhand is killed by limestone as Hilda Horsefall prepares to celebrate her 105th birthday. ...
An Owl Too Many (1992)
Amateur sleuths Professor Peter Shandy and his wife Helen of Balaclava Agricultural College are back, faced with a very disagreeable--and very murdered--bird watcher during a traditional owl count. "Piquant puns, suitable silly nomenclature, and audacious adventures enliven MacLeod's latest".--Bo...
The Curse Of The Giant Hogweed (1986)
Professor Peter Shandy, Balaclava College's best amateur sleuth, takes on a pest threatening to wipe Britain's lovely hedgerows. With colleagues Dan Stott and Timothy Ames, he leaves the groves of academe for fancy fieldword in the heart of Wales. Never in their wildest dreams did the three expec...
The Corpse In Oozak's Pond (1988)
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 th...
The Luck Runs Out (1984)
Professor Peter Shandy is in trouble up to the eyeballs again. With the Annual Competition of the Balaclava County Draft Horse Association coming up, some saboteur has reversed all the horseshoes nailed to the stable doors of Balaclava Agricultural College as good luck charms. Shandy predicts dir...
Rest You Merry (2001)
1977, #1 Professor Peter Shandy, Balaclava Agricultural College, New England; murder of an obnoxious woman at Christmastime involves a quiet academic in sleuthing and affection; her first adult novel, it's filled with all the right stuff for a lovely cosy village-type comedy/mystery, plus a bit m...