Rest you merry - Hardcover

For years, Professor Peter Shandy has been badgered by Jemima Ames, Assistant Librarian and Annual Chairperson, to decorate his campus home for the Grand Illumination which is Balaclava Agricultural College's main fund-raising event. Goaded to madness, he buries his small brick house under an avalanche of Christmas decorations and escapes to sea on a tramp steamer. Shipwrecked and conscience-stricken, he crawls back to face his irate colleagues, and finds Jemima Ames dead on his living room floor. Police and security guards say it's an accident; Shandy says it's murder. President Thorkjeld Svenson says he'd better find out the truth without wrecking the Illumination... or the next corpse will be Shandy's...

Charlotte MacLeod is the multiple award-winning author of over forty acclaimed novels, many featuring her series detective Professor Peter Shandy and her popular husband and wife team of Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn.