Something in the Water (Peter Shandy, Book 9) by Charlotte MacLeod
By Charlotte MacLeod
Unique book: 1994
While touring in Maine, Professor Peter Shandy confronts a toxic potpieMassachusetts horticulturalist Peter Shandy is known for his rutabagas, yet he involves Maine with a loftier plant in brain. particularly, he desires to dimension up the world-renowned lupines of Frances Rondel, a nonagenarian whose mythical vegetation are much more attractive in existence than they're in fable. Shandy is bitterly jealous, yet unearths a massive distraction within the eating room of the rustic lodge the place he’s staying. He may well develop wretched lupines, yet no gardener can clear up a homicide like Peter Shandy. The corpse belongs to the overdue Jasper Flodge, an area loudmouth with a toupee and a giant intestine. Shoveling down the final bites of a chook potpie, Flodge clutches his chest and falls useless. abruptly with extra to do than preventing to sniff the lupines, Shandy needs to ask himself: Which Maine prepare dinner has the undesirable style to taste fowl with cyanide?
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I stopped and stared but he walked on without me. I hurried to catch up. “Back when Byrdie and her mama first came to Piney Grove to worship, there was an old busybody in the congregation by the name of Ethel Cox. She had something ill to say about everybody. My mama was in charge of organizing the bake sale that year and she held a meeting at our house. Well, there wasn’t much talk about a bake sale that night. It was stuffy so Mama had opened the windows. I stood outside smoking and heard the whole thing.
He’ll never leave Bloodroot Mountain because the Cotters have lived here for generations, but I wonder if he ever wants to dust his hands of this place and move on. Millertown was the big city to me back then, before I went to Knoxville with Daddy once to buy a washing machine. Now I see it for what it really is, a country town with old houses and glass-sprinkled lots and the smokestacks of dirty-looking factories looming over everything. The buildings on Main Street are falling into disrepair but they still have character, with tall windows and painted brick and arched doorways.
One time I caught him off by hisself hid in the corn patch, reading a book of poems. His face got red as a beet and he flew so mad I thought he was going to fight me, just because I knowed he liked to read poems. ” Mr. Barnett talked about Myra’s granny, too. He said he could see why Macon was drawn to Byrdie, even though she wasn’t much to look at. She was brash and sassy and tough. “I seen her bury every one of her children and take to her bed for months at a time,” Mr. Barnett said. “But someway she always got back on her feet.



