Odysseus Vizard Poached Parody, Vol. 1-7

By: P.C. Hatter, Stacy Bender

Narrated by: James Scott Spaid

When the Eurasian Blue Tit and former Belgian inspector Odysseus Vizard is called on by a deer and old friend, Captain Russell, to solve a murder at a manor house, it takes all his genius to sort out the litter of suspects.

A French villa during the season form a fatal encounter where deer keep being found dead on a golf course and a decades long secret holds the key to keep a lovestruck buck from the guillotine.

Back in the English countryside, Vizard’s attempt at retirement fails when a blackmailer decides the local beavers need eliminating.

Whereas a pretty predator bird on the Cornish Riviera becomes prey.

Back in London, a wealthy wolf is murdered but his weasel wife has an ironclad alibi.

A serial killer with an alphabetical fixation pulls our little blue bird into a chase from Andover to Bexhill and beyond.

Lastly Nurse Mary Wrinkle joins Vizard in Iraq when a celebrated archaeologist's wife goes from red hot fox to stone cold pelt.

Follow the eccentric detective as he flits through each case while keeping his long feathery mustache impeccably curled.

©2024 Stacy Bender (P)2024 James Scott Spaid

Hercule Poirot as a Blue Tit

I thought these might be homages to Agatha Christie, but they are actually just tweaks to Christie novels, with the cast in each novel replaced as animals. Otherwise, the plots are identical. Some of the changes for the change to animals are odd. Here are the original stories.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder on the Links
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies
The ABC Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia

The changes to Christie's public domain writings are very minor. I'd rate the original stories as 5*. The modifications aren't entirely bad, but they don't offer much improvement either. For example, in this predator/prey world, all dead people go to processing centers to become meat, unless they've been poisoned. The narrator does a fine job.