CHARLOTTE MacLEOD – The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond. Professor Peter Shandy #6. Mysterious Press, hardcover, 1987; paperback, March 1988.

   The annual Groundhog Day celebration at Balaclava Agricultural College is disrupted by the discovery of a body floating in Oozak’s Pond (up above the methane plant). Since Chief Ottermole is more than willing, Professor Peter Shandy has another case to solve.

   There are soon two more bodies, and a lawsuit against the college, all involving the many (many) members of the Buggins family. This is a “laugh out loud” sort of book, but the ending is such a muddle you would not want to read this as detective story at all.