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Professor Peter Shandy of Balaclava Agricultural College has long endured playful pressure from Assistant Librarian Jemima Ames to decorate his home for the campus’s Christmastime Grand Illumination. After finally complying—packing his house in plastic reindeer, lights, and fake Santa Clauses—he hurls himself onto a tramp steamer. The ship wrecks, and Shandy returns to find Ames dead on his living room floor. Declared an accident by police and security, the image of tragedy under mistletoe spurs Shandy to uncover a possible murder while fearing that another victim may be his next. His investigation must balance the campus’s holiday fundraising and the looming danger of the next casualty.
First publish date: 1978
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Charlotte MacLeod
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