An Owl Too Many

By: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrated by: John McLain

Professor Peter Shandy returns in "a high-flying farce with humor that ranges from broad slapstick to quiet witticisms.... This murder most fowl is a hoot" (Publishers Weekly).

Emory Emmerick comes to Balaclava Agricultural University as a scout for a television station. Although the faculty and students are hardly ready for prime time, Emmerick's interest is in environmental programming - a subject that inspires even the driest Balaclava professor to wax poetic. In his search for material, Emmerick joins Peter Shandy and a few of his colleagues on the annual owl count. And though the television producer's loud mouth and heavy feet make him a dismal birdwatcher, none of the academics expect him to make a fatal blunder. Chasing what appears to be a badly lost snowy owl, Emmerick stumbles into a trap that yanks him into a tree. By the time the professors reach him, he's been stabbed to death. Discovering that the snowy owl was nothing more than a handful of feathers attached to a fishing pole, Shandy concludes that Emmerick was murdered. Plenty of people might like to kill a television producer, but which would-be killer had the gall to make the helpless Nyctea scandiaca an accomplice?

©1991 Charlotte MacLeod (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Love the story, but the actor...no so much.

I love pretty much everything written by CM. A lot of the charm of the story is destroyed by the voice actor. When President Svenson speaks I hear Jack Palance, a bad take on Batman, or anybody in the world other than Svenson.

But then, none of the voice actors for the CM serieses are really good