It’s not just a groundhog who surfaces that day. The body in Oozak’s Pond poses quite the conundrum and the college needs Peter Shandy to step up and solve this ancient murder with the help of his wife’s expertise in local history.
In their quest to eradicate the giant hogweed, Professors Shandy, Ames, and Stott stumble into merry olde Wales, trapped in a land of castles, wizards, and knights where Shandy must use every scrap of his horticultural genius to get back home — lest the hogweed triumph in his absence.
It’s murder and political shenanigans that catches Professor Shandy’s attention in a series of events that lead to an uncovering of corruption.
A gruesome murder leads Professor Peter Shandy to uncover an ancient Viking curse.
Professor Peter Shandy is in trouble up to the eyeballs again. With the Annual Competition of the Balaclava County Draft Horse Association coming up, some saboteur has reversed all the horseshoes nailed to the stable doors of Balaclava Agricultural College as good luck charms. Shandy predicts dire happenings. His predictions are nowhere near dire enough.
His plans thwarted, a university scrooge returns home on Christmas Day to find a murdered librarian.