The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn
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When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town races to Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy’s Yarnery to begin work on a complete wardrobe of hats, booties, and tiny sweaters. One customer, however, has even more urgent business: the man with the gunshot wounds in his back. The victim stumbles out of a bullet-ridden car, dripping blood all over the freshly cleaned sidewalk, and dies with a peculiar phrase on his lips: “The raveled sleeve!” Before Miss Jane can offer advice on how to rescue an unraveling sweater, her unfortunate customer expires. To ensure her twins can be raised in a safe hometown, Dittany will have to get the yarn-store murder sewn up.
Charlotte MacLeod
Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005) was an international 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. In Rest You Merry (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. The Family Vault (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, The Balloon Man, in 1998.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5MacLeod has a tendency to lean heavily on caricature and odd traits for her characters, and this series shows the worst of that. On the other hand, this particular book actually _uses_ those odd traits to deal with the mystery. The constant references to ostriches and 'Gadzooks!' become less annoying when flamingos and pinwheels are major features of the solution...I think, the best of this series (which is, in my opinion, her worst series). Not bad, overall.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'm not a big fan of the screwball cozy. Nonetheless I usually enjoy Charlotte MacLeod's efforts in this vein. But this one—for me it never really gets going. It seems quite strained, with no plot worth describing.