Charlotte MacLeod - Exit the Milkman HarperCollins £14.99
Professor Peter Shandy and his wife, Helen, live in Balaclava, where
their neighbours are Jim Feldster, expert on Dairy Management at Balaclava
Agricultural College and his wife Mirelle. All is not well in the Feldster household
and Jim is found most evenings at one of his many Lodges, avoiding the company of his
waspish wife.
Early one morning the Shandys are awakened by Mirelle who tells them
that her husband has not returned home and it later transpires that he had not arrived at
his destination the previous evening. He has
disappeared.
Feldster’s disappearance is followed by the death of his wife
Mirelle whose body has been found in her living room in
rather bizarre circumstances.
The arrival on the scene of mystery writer Catriona McBogle (friend
of Helen Shandy), who decides to do some sleuthing of her own, reveals to the reader
that there is a connection between Jim Feldster and the wealthy Feldstermeier family, the
head of which, Foster Feldstermeier, milk magnate, has just died. Jim Feldster steps into
the role of head of the Feldstermeier family.
Back at Balaclava a fire destroys the home of the Feldsters and the
truth at last begins to emerge concerning the temporary disappearance of Jim and the death
of his wife.
Another entertaining mystery by this author, east reading, witty,
and once started, difficult to put down.
Joyce Spence.
