VEGETABLES CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH! Old Agatha Treadway baked her own bread, canned her own vegetables---and died of botulism in her very own kitchen. Accident, says Dr. Druffitt. Murder, says neighbor Janet Wadman. And says it again when ...
WILDFLOWERS, MOLASSES COOKIES…AND HOMEMADE MURDER Who on earth was disturbing the Spotted Pipssisewa? That’s what Miss Dittany Henbit wanted to know when she found a strange young man from the Water Department running a bulldozer over the alre...
In the frigid Canadian north, Madoc and Janet try to keep warm and stay alive
Though he may not look the part, Madoc Rhys is a Mountie - and his keen sense of detection tells him it''s time to ask Janet Wadman to marry him. They have just g...
A PATCHWORK OF DEATH Something sinister began in Lobelia Falls after the Grub-and-Stakers Club hired a curator for their new village museum. Mr. Fairfield had an uncanny eye for antiques…but was blind to the danger that stalked him. Before the m...
THE MRS. IS MISSING It’s bad news for Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His wife’s new car has been found abandoned in the middle of nowhere -- with nothing inside but her handbag and a faint odor of burning....
The Grub and Stake Gardening and Archery club, rehearsing for a drama competition, finds that someone is trying to kill their leading man and it is up to actress/sleuth Dittany Henbit Monk to track down the muderer...
MURDER STRIKES A FALSE NOTE Trouble has dogged Sir Emlyn Rhys ever since he became guest conductor of the Wagstaffe Symphony Orchestra. He sends an SOS to his son the Mountie, and Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys arrives just in time to witness the ...
KNIT ONE, PURLOIN TOO Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy's Yarnery is the wildest, woolliest place in Lobelia Falls. And now, with unknown cousins from England due to arrive any minute, Miss Jane has discovered bloodstains all over her clean floor, and the corp...
Miss Sir Caradoc Rhys's 90th birthday party? Madoc and Janet Rhys wouldn't dream of it. It's May Day in Wales, the ancient Beltane. The harps are strumming, the feast is spread, and Rhyses galore are gathered for the revels. There's Rhys the patriarc...
A GRAVE SITUATION Normally not one to be spooked by a specter, spunky widow Zilla Trott is nevertheless unnerved when the ghost of long-dead mule driver Hiram Jellyby appears in he kitchen -- demanding that someone disinter his murdered bones and ...