A Pint of Murder
MacLeod CharlotteA killer wielding poisonous green beans terrorizes a small Canadian town.
Agatha
Treadway has done her own preserving ever since the day her husband was
done in by a can of supermarket tomatoes. And after four vigilant
decades canning everything from peaches to spinach, it is her own green
beans that kill her. Inspecting the fatal jar, Janet Wadman finds it has
been tampered with, so that toxic botulism was allowed to seep in. But
before she can tell the town doctor that Mrs. Treadway was murdered, the
doctor joins the widow in untimely death.
To investigate, the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police sends Madoc Rhys, a Mountie who doesn't
look the part. Masquerading as a relative, this squat Welshman helps
Janet dig into the town's dark side. And what they find is a deadly
secret that proves even more poisonous than botulism.