A Christmas scrooge finds a murdered librarian in this holiday novel from an Edgar Award finalist known for her ``witty, literate, and charming`` mysteries ( Publishers Weekly ) Each December, the faculty of Balaclava Agricultural College goes wild with Christmas lights.
As Peter Shandy will soon find, though, there is a dark side to even the whitest of white Christmases..
After all, Christmas is big business, and the town needs the cash infusion provided by the Illumination.
Wishing to avoid a scandal, the school\'s head asks Shandy to investigate the matter quietly.
The horticulturalist flees town, planning to spend Christmas on a tramp steamer, but soon feels guilty about his prank and returns home to find his Christmas lights extinguished, and a dead librarian in his living room.
But after years of resisting the Illumination festival, Shandy snaps, installing a million-watt display of flashing lights and blaring music perfectly calculated to drive his neighbors mad.
The entire campus glitters with holiday decorations, save for one dark spot: the home of professor Peter Shandy.
A Christmas scrooge finds a murdered librarian in this holiday novel from an Edgar Award finalist known for her ``witty, literate, and charming`` mysteries ( Publishers Weekly ) Each December, the faculty of Balaclava Agricultural College goes wild with Christmas lights
