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Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy's Yarnery is the site of murder when someone makes mincemeat out of a local merchant, and the Monks, a husband-and-wife detective team, take the case
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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.
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The latest from Charlotte McLeod, writing as Craig ( The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain ), is a kitsch whodunit that overflows with witticisms, puns and mistaken identities; steady tongue-in-cheek narration keeps it from becoming cloying. Casting the members of the Lobelia Falls Grub-and-Stakers Gardening and Roving Club, the drama begins in Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy's Yarnery, where an executive at the local mincemeat factory is murdered. Popular novelist Osbert Monk joins in the police investigation. The ensuing shenanigans are hilarious and cleverly conceived--at one point the criminals mistakenly abduct Osbert's aunt Arethusa instead of the murder victim's daughter, Matilda McCorquindale; to outsmart them, Osbert decides that Matilda should attend her father's funeral and pretend to be Arethusa pretending to be Matilda. McLeod threads the suspense surely, and although the quirky character names grow cumbersome, she keeps her story energetic and merry.
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0380755408
- ISBN 13 9780380755400
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages215
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