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Something the Cat Dragged In, The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Publisher: Diamond Books
ISBN: 9780261662551
Pages: 411
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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.