The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn

By: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrated by: Lory Reyes

A murder in a yarn store leads to some wild and woolly adventures in this "energetic and merry" mystery (Publishers Weekly).

When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town races to Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy's Yarnery to begin work on a complete wardrobe of hats, booties, and tiny sweaters. One customer, however, has even more urgent business: the man with the gunshot wounds in his back. The victim stumbles out of a bullet-ridden car, dripping blood all over the freshly cleaned sidewalk, and dies with a peculiar phrase on his lips: "The raveled sleeve!" Before Miss Jane can offer advice on how to rescue an unraveling sweater, her unfortunate customer expires. To ensure her twins can be raised in a safe hometown, Dittany will have to get the yarn-store murder sewn up.

©1990 Alisa Craig (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Screwball mystery at its most amusing

This loopy cast of characters had me grinning all the way through the story!
Something is rotten in the mincemeat factory—a dastardly spy is trying to steal the secret recipe for Mother Matilda’s Mincemeat Pies!
Add in a gangland-style shootout in front of a yarn shop, and an artistic landlady whose creative vision encompasses all the exciting possibilities of plastic flamingos, and you’ll smile all the way through this tale of rural Canadian skulduggery.
The narrator did an acceptable job.