Rest You Merry (Paperback)

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CONTINUING THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF CLASSIC MYSTERIES BY AMERICAN MYSTERY AND NERO WOLFE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MacLEOD

For years, Professor Peter Shandy has been badgered by Jemima Ames, Assistant Librarian and Annual Chairperson, to decorate his campus home for the Grand Illumination which is Balaclava Agricultural College's main fund-raising event. Now he can hold out no longer.

Goaded to madness, he buries his small brick house under an avalanche of plastic reindeer, flashing lights, and fake Santa Clauses. Hooks up an amplifier blaring "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth," locks the switches at "on," and escapes to sea on a tramp steamer.

Shipwrecked and conscience-stricken, he crawls back to face his irate colleagues, and finds Jemima Ames dead on his living room floor. Police and security guards say it's an accident; Shandy says it's murder. President Thorkjeld Svenson says he'd better find out the truth without wrecking the Illumination...or the next corpse will be Shandy's. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm); 14th THUS edition (October 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380475308
• ISBN-13: 978-0380475308
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny mystery, November 4, 2001

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This review is from: Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have alsways enjoyed spoofs obout Christmas, and this one had me laughing so hard that I cried. Prof. Peter Shandy did what I always wanted to do about December 23rd, when the pressures of this "giving season" are really getting to me. It is also a really good mystery with a plot, cleverly drawn characters and a satisfactor ending. I recommend it highly (especially in the third week of December).

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great screwball mystery!, January 13, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Norman, OK) - See all my reviews

If you like eccentric, crazy characters, and good mystery, this is a great book!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, awful edition!, March 25, 2007

By	Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett "Bea" (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love Rest You Merry and I was thrilled to see a hardcover edition advertised, but this edition is awful. It is actually a paperback, not a hardcover edition. Probably a reprint of a hardcover without resetting the text for a paperback sized book. The font size is tiny, like foot notes and hard to read. While a normal paperback has 32-35 rows of text, this has 44 in the same size book! I hope there will be a new edition with a better layout at some point in the future. This is a gloriously funny book worth re-reading for the pleasure of escaping to Balaclava with its eccentric inhabitants and the reindeer on Peter Shandy's roof! Five points for the book, one point for the edition.