Exit the Milkman

by Charlotte MacLeod

Paperback, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Series

Balaclava-Reihe (10)

Peter Shandy (10)

Genres

Mystery

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

Mysterious Pr (1997), Paperback

Description

Fiction. Mystery. HTML:The international bestselling author "again demonstrates her skill and with incomparable whimsy makes her bucolic puzzles great fun" (Publishers Weekly). Although he towers over his neighbors, Jim Feldster is otherwise unremarkable, except for his mastery of cow milking and his membership in every lodge, rotary club, and brotherhood that Balaclava County has to offer. And anyone who's met his wife, Mirelle, a vicious gossip with a hysterical streak, can understand why he never misses a meeting. But one night their neighbors, the sleuthing academics Peter and Helen Shandy, wake at 2:47 a.m. to the sound of Mirelle screaming. Jim hasn't come home, and she will lose her mind if he isn't found quickly. None of Jim's lodge brothers know where to find him, and Peter's investigation turns up few clues. But when a mystery author comes to town and Mirelle is found murdered, Peter begins to wonder if the master milker is less wholesome than he appears.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member cbl_tn

This was my first Charlotte MacLeod novel, and I started at the end of her Peter Shandy series. Based on the writing style, it probably doesn't matter in what order one reads the books in this series. The characters are essentially caricatures and, as such, are probably much the same from book to

book. The story is heavy on witty banter and light on narrative description and anything resembling a clue. I think it's probably an acquired taste. I prefer mysteries with clues and suspects, and I enjoy the challenge of trying to solve the puzzle before the big revelation. Apparently this isn't MacLeod's style, at least not in this series. I won't be going out of my way to find more books in this series, but I might pick one up if it's handy and I'm in a frivolous mood.

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LibraryThing member bookwoman247

When Jim Feldtster, the head of the dairy dept. at a small, New England, agricultural college disappears under mysterious circumstances, his unpleasant wife rouses her neighbor, Professor Peter Shandy, in the middle of the night. Shandy dismisses her pleas for help as attention-seekkng

hystrionics.

When Feldster still hasn't turned up to teach his classes the next day, Shandy has second thoughts, and regrets being so dismissive the night before.

After Peter and Helen Shandy's friend, Catriona McBogle, gets lost on a rarely-used backroad and finds Feldster strapped into a wrecked car and apparently suffering from amnesia, the mystery only deepens.

The mystery becomes even more profound when Feldster's unpleasant wife is found dead in their immaculate house.

This was an entertaining read. Among the cozies I've read, I'd probably rate it somewhere in the middle - not the worst by any means, but certanly not the best.

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LibraryThing member catseyegreen

Professor Peter shandy investigates the disappearance of his long-time neighbor and finds out that neighbor's great secret. Meanwhile, the neighbor's wife is murdered.
library book read 1/2/023.

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