Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #316269 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Laughs, Murder, and Zoo Animals
Meg and Michael are finally moving into their new house. All of Meg's relatives are coming to help. And in the middle of the house warming party to follow, Meg and Michael plan to slip away to elope.

Everyone is just beginning to work when Meg's dad appears, announces he found a body in the basement while digging a swimming pit for the penguins, and disappears again.

Dead body? Penguins? Unfortunately, both prove to be true.

The penguins are refugees from the local zoo which has closed temporarily due to poor financial management. And they are just the beginning of the animals that begin to show up since Meg's dad has volunteered to take care of any animals that need to be watched.

Even worse, the body turns out to be the zoo's owner. Now Meg has a few days to find the killer and solve her sudden animal problem or risk watching her carefully planned elopement fall apart. Can she do it?

The books in this series are always funny, and this book is no exception. I chuckled and laugh the entire way through. There are some great new characters that provide some of the best laughs of the book. And, of course, there are the antics of the animals as well.

The plot suffered a little at the expense of the comedy. It starts out strong and develops pretty evenly. But the ending seems rushed to me.

Frankly, fans of the series won't care. They'll be laughing so hard at the antics of animal and human alike. This is another treat from a master of humor.

The Funniest Mystery in a Long Time
This has to be the funniest book I have read in a long time. I bought it on a recent trip to America and laughed from start to finish, gaining some funny looks along the way when reading it in a restaurant. Meg Lanslow is informed by her father there are one dead body and 13 penguins in her basement. From there the fun begins as more animals appear and her family, both human and animal, become more eccentric by the minute. Her fiance has the patience of a saint and seems to think the escapades of the increasingly more manic multitudes are hilarious. I cannot agree with the previous reviewer that the plot is lacking as I thought both plot and humour were equally as good and complimented each other smoothly. I would definitley recommend this book and I full intend reading others in this sereies.