Rest You Merry — Charlotte MacLeod

BODIES ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS

And Christmas was very big business at Balaclava Agricultural College where the campus ''Illumination" attracted hosts of joyful tourists. So when Professor Peter Shandy found a faculty wife sprawled dead on his living room floor, the authorities quickly agreed: it was an accident.

Professor Shandy wasn't so sure. not-so-accidental poisoning, followed by a case of arson, confirmed his doubts and forced this mild-mannered scientist to research a matter of murder most foul in the season of good will to men.