The Grub-and-Stakers Spin A Yarn (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
“When I introduced Osbert and Dittany Monk as my deputies, Cousin Matilda,” he said rather coldly, “I spoke naught but the truth. Together, these two young folk have succeeded in clearing up three of the most baffling mysteries that e’er sullied the annals of law enforcement. Osbert Monk needs no fancy label, he is a host in himself. Whether he will be handicapped by the fact that his partner in criminology, as in life, will not be able to penetrate yon mincemeat factory, I much doubt. And I confess that I’d have been gravely apprehensive had she gone.” After Ditson Henbit’s death, Sergeant MacVicar had got to thinking of Dittany as a wee, fatherless bairn. He was still finding the habit hard to break notwithstanding her present status as wife and incipient mother. He, was giving her one of those benign looks of his, Dittany noted, and trying to think up something to say that wouldn’t make her want to stamp her feet and flounce off in a huff. “Howsomever,” he concluded after a moment’s cogitation, “I doubt not that Dittany will be assisting the investigation in her own inscrutable ways.”
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