Duck the Halls
'Tis the season to be jolly - and for Meg Langslow to round up stray animals of all sorts as well as a killer.
A few nights before Christmas, Meg is awakened when volunteer fireman Michael is summoned to the New Life Baptist
Church, where someone has rigged a cage full of skunks in the choir loft. The lengthy process of de-skunking
the church requires its annual pre-Christmas concert to relocate to Trinity Episcopal, where Mother insists
the show must go on, despite the budget-related protests of Mr. Vess, an elderly vestryman. Meanwhile, when
Meg helps her grandfather take the skunks to the zoo, they discover that his boa has been stolen - only to
turn up later during the concert, slithering out from the ribbon-bedecked evergreens. The next morning is
Sunday, and the congregation of St. Byblig's, the local Catholic church, arrive to find it completely
filled with several hundred ducks.
It's clear that some serious holiday pranksters are on the loose, and Meg is determined to find them.
But before she can, a fire breaks out at Trinity, and Mr. Vess is discovered dead. Who would have
murdered such a harmless - if slightly cranky - old man? Who has the time during the busy holiday
season to herd all of these animals into the town's churches? And will Meg ever be able to finish
all of her shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating in time for Christmas Eve?
ISBN: 9781250046710
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