Something the Cat Dragged InMartha Lomax's cat pulls off a remarkable piece of detection work which leads to the discovery of the corpse of her elderly boarder, Professor Herbert Ungley, behind the clubhouse of the exclusive Balaclavian Society.Refusing to accept that the victim died by misadventure, Mrs Lomax passes on her clues to Professor Peter Shandy - only to unleash a murder investigation that threatens to become a full-scale war between town and gown...The Corpse in Oozak's PondA college celebration on the banks of Oozak's pond leads to the gruesome discovery of a corpse, weighted with rocks and bearing an unnerving resemblance to the college's long-dead founder, Balaclava Buggins.As Professor Peter Shandy's wife discovers a similar murder in the founder's family archive, the presumed instigator of a suit to possess Oozak's pond is found dead - and Shandy is soon struggling in a cat's cradle of clues to solve the murders.

Charlotte MacLeod, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, is the multi-award-winning author of over thirty acclaimed novels. Her series featuring detective Professor Peter Shandy, America's homegrown Hercule Poirot, delivers "generous dollops of...warmth, wit, and whimsy" (San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). But fully a dozen novels star her popular husband-and-wife team of Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn. And her native Canada provides a backdrop for the amusing Grub-and-Stakers cozies written under the pseudonym Alisa Craig. A cofounder and past president of the American Crime Writers League, she has also edited the bestselling anthologies Mistletoe Mysteries and Christmas Stalkings.