Professor Peter Shandy Books in Order

Professor Peter Shandy retaliates against his college's Christmas festivities with an outrageous display, then leaves town. Returning home to a dead librarian draws him into a discreet investigation that threatens the institution's cherished and profitable holiday tradition.

A prized sow disappears from Balaclava Agricultural College, and its farrier is found murdered. Peter and Helen Shandy investigate a confusion of clues and suspects, searching for connections between the missing animal and a crime that unsettles the college.

A reporter pursuing claims of an ancient Norse stone witnesses the aftermath of a farmhand's death by quicklime. Peter Shandy investigates the brutal killing, sorting local secrets from stories of Vikings and a possible curse in the Massachusetts countryside.

A cat returns carrying Professor Herbert Ungley's toupee, leading to the discovery of his battered body. Peter Shandy challenges the police's assumption of an accident and investigates the unpleasant man's wealth, inheritance, and connections to another suspicious death.

Peter Shandy travels to England to investigate an invasive plant threatening the countryside. His search for giant hogweed takes an extraordinary turn when a portal strands him among castles, giants, and wizards, where botanical knowledge may be his best escape.

A corpse dressed in nineteenth-century clothes surfaces in Oozak's Pond during winter festivities. Its resemblance to the college's founder draws Peter Shandy into an investigation complicated by a lawsuit from the founder's descendants and mysteries in the family archives.

Helen Shandy's project photographing antique weather vanes reveals a pattern of theft and arson. Her trip to protect another valuable vane in Maine becomes dangerous, forcing her and Peter to unravel a gang's operations before more historic pieces disappear.

A television producer joins Peter Shandy and his colleagues on an owl-counting expedition, seeking material for environmental programming. His discovery in a trap, stabbed to death, turns birdwatching into a complicated investigation amid Balaclava's eccentric academic community.

Peter Shandy visits coastal Maine to admire a retired teacher's exceptional lupines. When a disliked local swindler dies over a cyanide-laced chicken potpie at the inn, botanical rivalry gives way to an investigation of grievances, gossip, and another killing.

Peter Shandy investigates when dairy expert Jim Feldster fails to return from his usual evening activities. The disappearance yields few clues, but his wife's subsequent murder transforms a missing-person inquiry into a darker puzzle about the apparently unremarkable man.