The corpse in Oozak's Pond

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Sixth in the Professor Peter Shandy mystery series > Avid birdwatcher Professor Peter Shandy of Balaclava Agricultural College scans the wind-swept waters of Oozak's Pond. Suddenly, out from under the icecakes, up bobs a half-frozen corpse in a soggy suit of clothes nearly 100 years old. The body bears an unnerving resemblance to Balaclava Buggins, long-dead founder of the College. >President Thorkjeld Swenson implores Shandy to help solve the mystery--and help Balaclava College in its courtroom fight against Buggins' nasty and avaricious descendants, who have brought a particularly harebrained property law suit against the school. >While his wife, Helen, digs through the Buggins family archives, the Professor follows a series of bizarre clues that lead from a retired Arctic explorer and a scarlet woman named Flo to a convict who robbed the same place once too often...

subjects: Detective and mystery fiction,  Peter Shandy (fictitious character),  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Shandy, peter (fictitious character), fiction,  Shandy, helen (fictitious character), fiction,  College teachers, fiction,  Balaclava junction (mass. : imaginary place), fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Librarians, fiction