The penguin who knew too much : [a Meg Langslow mystery]
Record details
- ISBN: 0312997922 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0312329423 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780312997922
- ISBN: 9780312329426
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Physical Description:
262 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007.
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Subject: | Langslow, Meg (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Zoo keepers -- Crimes against -- Fiction Women detectives -- Fiction Virgina -- Fiction |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. Humorous fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Cozy mystery. Women sleuths. Amateur sleuth. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at South Central Regional Library.
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More information
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2007 July #1
Meg Langslow and her fiancé, Michael, are finally moving into their newly renovated house, assisted by numerous members of Meg's extended family. Unfortunately, Meg's father finds a body in her basement while he is digging a hole for a pool for some penguins he is fostering. The body is identified as that of Patrick Lanahan, owner of Caerphilly's bankrupt zoo. More chaos followsâand the Langslow menagerie quickly growsâafter Meg's father's tells all those fostering the zoo animals to drop them off at Meg's place if fostering gets to be too much for them. Soon llamas, wolves, and hyenas are frolicking in the backyard. Meg investigates the murder and tries to save the zoo (so her many house guests can return home), all while planning her secret wedding. The levelheaded, unflappable Meg takes it all in stride: the parade of wild animals, her quirky relatives, an irate police chief, and a father who loves a mystery. This eighth cozy in the series makes the most of humorous situations, zany relatives, and lovable characters. Copyright 2007 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2007 June #2
Not just penguins, but llamas, camels, hyenas, snakes, lemurs, wolves, sheep, Lola the bobcat and some passing strange human fauna disrupt Meg Langslow's housewarming.What would make you even less happy than finding a flock of penguins in the basement of the farmhouse you and your fiancé had expensively restored? Finding a dead bodyâespecially if it's the body of J. Patrick Lanahan, the improvident zookeeper who'd pressed Meg's endlessly obliging father to babysit the Caerphilly (Va.) Zoo's tenants until the zoo emerged from bankruptcy. Now someone armed with a crossbow has ended Lanahan's financial woes and brought Meg (No Nest for the Wicket, 2006, etc.) a Noah's Arkload of troubles. Quite apart from all the problems her instant zoo poses, Meg has to deal with an acting Medical Examiner who's too claustrophobic to go down to her basement; a world-famous naturalist who won't stop sniffing around her family; a pair of spade-toting brothers convinced their great-uncle's buried on her farm; an animal-rights activist whose group, Save Our Beasts, still pickets the Caerphilly Zoo even though no one's there; and a farm-goods saleswoman determined to harvest Meg's copious new supply of manure for her ZooperPoop! It's no wonder that when the hard-used heroine finally confronts the killer, he responds testily, "There's no need to snap at me." Andrews continues her mission to turn all Meg's most memorable life-cycle events into bedlam-laced farce. Agent: Ellen Geiger/Frances Goldin Literary Agency Copyright Kirkus 2007 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2007 April #1
A bankrupt zoo has Meg's father adopting penguins and more, as well as digging up a dead body in the 12th of the wacky series. Five-city tour. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2007 June #1
In Agatha-winner Andrews's deliciously daffy eighth Meg Langslow mystery (after 2006's No Nest for the Wicket ), blacksmith Meg and her fianc, Michael, are at last moving into their new house in Caerphilly, Va., assisted (and occasionally hindered) by Meg's vast clan of maternal relations. Then Meg's dad announces that, while digging a pool in the new house's basement for penguins fostered from a bankrupt local zoo, he has discovered a dead body. As the police investigate, more fostered animals arrive at Meg's place, and when the zoo's missing owner turns out to be the corpse, Meg has to sort out the mystery, along with her plans to elope and the problems relating to various animals roaming around her property. As usual, Meg takes the familial eccentricities in stride while coping with one crisis after another. Andrews demonstrates her absolute mastery of the comedic mystery, deftly balancing outrageously funny scenes with well-paced suspense. Author tour. (Aug.)
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