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Exit the Milkman: A Professor Peter Shandy Mystery (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 10) Kindle Edition

by Charlotte MacLeod (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
The international bestselling author “again demonstrates her skill and with incomparable whimsy makes her bucolic puzzles great fun” (Publishers Weekly).
 Although he towers over his neighbors, Jim Feldster is otherwise unremarkable, except for his mastery of cow milking and his membership in every lodge, rotary club, and brotherhood that Balaclava County has to offer. And anyone who’s met his wife, Mirelle, a vicious gossip with a hysterical streak, can understand why he never misses a meeting. But one night their neighbors, the sleuthing academics Peter and Helen Shandy, wake at 2:47 a.m. to the sound of Mirelle screaming. Jim hasn’t come home, and she will lose her mind if he isn’t found quickly. None of Jim’s lodge brothers know where to find him, and Peter’s investigation turns up few clues. But when a mystery author comes to town and Mirelle is found murdered, Peter begins to wonder if the master milker is less wholesome than he appears.
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  1. Book 10 of 10
    The Peter Shandy Mysteries
  2. Print length
    258 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
  5. Publication date
    November 6, 2012
  6. File size
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From Publishers Weekly

Kidnapping and murder, no strangers to Balaclava Agricultural College, expose doughty professor Peter Shandy to the lifestyle of the rich, if not famous. Shandy, last seen in Something in the Water, is desultorily investigating the disappearance of his neighbor James Feldster, head of the dairy management department, when the missing man's awful wife, Mirelle, is discovered dead and covered with blood. Mystery writer Catriona McBogle, visiting the Shandys during a spell of writer's block, accidentally finds the missing man unconscious in a limousine at the bottom of a ravine off a deserted road. For complicated reasons, she keeps his whereabouts mostly secret. That the henpecked dairy professor is heir to a major dairy dynasty and that his late wife is rumored to have bestowed her affections freely around Balaclava are issues that fearsome college President Thorkjeld Svenson wants kept out of the papers. Shandy takes the recovered but reluctant Feldster to the family manse to take charge of the family fortune and dispossess his nephew, Florian, as head of the family. In the 10th Shandy tale, MacLeod again demonstrates her skill and with incomparable whimsy makes her bucolic puzzles great fun. Mystery Guild selection.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Series star Peter Shandy is the last person to see fellow professor Jim Feldster?a man who welcomes any excuse to get away from his wife?before he disappears. When Feldster's wife accuses the Shandys of hiding her husband, they begin sleuthing. Another series charmer.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009S33KZ2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (November 6, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 466 ratings

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Charlotte MacLeod

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Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children’s book called Mystery of the White Knight.

In Rest You Merry (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. The Family Vault (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, The Balloon Man, in 1998.

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Customers enjoy this mystery book's excellent plot and find it fun to revisit. The book is humorous, with customers laughing out loud, and features well-developed characters they care about. Customers praise the writing quality, with one noting its use of literary references.

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13 customers mention "Plot"13 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the mystery plot of the book, finding it excellent and fun to revisit, with one customer describing it as an amusing New England mystery.

"...solution hardly requiring Sherlockian talents; nonetheless the story is amusing and, as always, the lead characters, outside of the Shandy's, at..." Read more

"I have reread these 10 books again and again. These are excellent stories with great plots and characters one cares about...." Read more

"I am enjoying rereading Charlotte MacLeod's excellent mysteries. Of all her series the Peter Shandy books are the best...." Read more

"...The mystery plot is excellent with its fair share of red herrings and an unexpected conclusion...." Read more

11 customers mention "Humor"11 positive0 negative

Customers find the book humorous, with several mentioning they laugh out loud while reading it, and one customer noting it's an old school funny mystery series.

"...She is smart and humorous and silly, at times. She teaches one without being too pompous. She is missed...." Read more

"...outside of the Shandy's, at least a bit offbeat, with the humor being mild but pleasing...." Read more

"...The humor is earthy and good for some big belly laughs. It’s what laces the stories together...." Read more

"...Of all her series the Peter Shandy books are the best. She combines delightful wit, some of it laugh-out-loud, wonderful characters goodies or..." Read more

11 customers mention "Readability"11 positive0 negative

Customers find the book to be a great read and part of an excellent series, with one customer describing it as top-class cozies.

"...Of all her series the Peter Shandy books are the best...." Read more

"...as captivated by the quirky characters but it still ended up being a great read...." Read more

"Really enjoyed this book. Laugh out loud sometimes. Why would someone want to kill a milkman? Love Peter and Helen Shandy together." Read more

"...It is a marvelous series with quirky lovable characters. And it is clean elegant prose...." Read more

8 customers mention "Character development"8 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, with one mentioning the engaging mix of characters at an agricultural college.

"She writes like a true intellectual! She creates characters, in most cases, one cannot help loving...." Read more

"...These are excellent stories with great plots and characters one cares about. I am drawn to revisit them again and again." Read more

"The last of the Shandy novels does not disappoint! I love these quirky characters and I love Charlotte McLeod! On to Max and Sarah Kelling!" Read more

"...combines delightful wit, some of it laugh-out-loud, wonderful characters goodies or badies, and extraordinary vocabulary...." Read more

5 customers mention "Writing quality"5 positive0 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, with one customer noting its clean and elegant prose, while another appreciates the author's use of literary references.

"...She writes Funny. She shares her agricultural, bovine, porcine, Horse-ine knowledge freely. She is smart and humorous and silly, at times...." Read more

"...laugh-out-loud, wonderful characters goodies or badies, and extraordinary vocabulary...." Read more

"...And it is clean elegant prose. Charlotte Macleod had a wonderful imagination which is exemplified in every story." Read more

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  • pollymom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Th final,interesting and funny ANF horrific...as usual! I miss Charlotte MacLeod sooo much!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2025
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    She writes like a true intellectual! She creates characters, in most cases, one cannot help loving. She uses literate and literary references to make you pause and look them up, constantly and continually. She writes Funny. She shares her agricultural, bovine, porcine, Horse-ine knowledge freely. She is smart and humorous and silly, at times. She teaches one without being too pompous. She is missed.
    This being the last book...waaahhh...in the Peter Sandy and others series..is simply, hard to take. I would have read so many more if she'd written them!
    I have only a few stand alone books left to read until I truly mourn her loss.
    Always a complex, yet fast read...and even though I truly felt, well, Stupid, at times...truly enjoyable experience every
    book.
    I will miss her even more then I do now when all is read and done.
    Highly, with no reservations, Recommended.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Most Pleasant Light Reading
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2015
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    I admit that Charlotte MacLeod is one of my favorites, this, second to the Bittersohn series, being the best (in my mind) of the four devoted to different characters she has created. This one has to do with the disappearance of the Shandy's (our hero and heroine) neighbor and the mysterious death of his wife. The plot is simple enough, with the solution hardly requiring Sherlockian talents; nonetheless the story is amusing and, as always, the lead characters, outside of the Shandy's, at least a bit offbeat, with the humor being mild but pleasing. The setting, once more, is an agricultural college in New England and the small town of which it is a central part. When you are not in the mood for heart-wrenching pain and brutality or the dense complexity of a Dostoevskian mystery, and want some light reading to pass the time of day....or night...this is a good choice.
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  • Marketta
    5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful books
    Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2024
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    Having read the whole Shandy series, I am still chortling. I hope the author never gets tired of writing until she is called to her just reward in Paradise.

    Margarete
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  • Astro Mom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love the Peter Shandy Stories
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2024
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    I have reread these 10 books again and again. These are excellent stories with great plots and characters one cares about. I am drawn to revisit them again and again.
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  • MY Library
    4.0 out of 5 stars Exit Shandy!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2025
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    The last of the Shandy novels does not disappoint! I love these quirky characters and I love Charlotte McLeod! On to Max and Sarah Kelling!
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  • E. Phillips
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely conclusion to the Shandy series
    Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2024
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    Charlotte MacLeod’s linguistically clever books may not be to everyone’s liking. The college professor’s intricately plotted investigations occurred in some part of New England, possibly Massachusetts. The expressions used, the way people teased one another, the way Peter Shandy explained things as he went along, all contain quips and general tone straight out of the 1960s. I know because I was a college student there back then.

    The humor is earthy and good for some big belly laughs. It’s what laces the stories together.

    So if you enjoy cozy mysteries with true local color along with complex puzzles you will enjoy this Milkman story along with the other eight books.
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  • Sola49
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2014
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great reread
    Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2020
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    I am enjoying rereading Charlotte MacLeod's excellent mysteries. Of all her series the Peter Shandy books are the best. She combines delightful wit, some of it laugh-out-loud, wonderful characters goodies or badies, and extraordinary vocabulary. I suspect she could write about anything and it would entertain.
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