Six Geese A-Slaying: A Meg Langslow Christmas Mystery (Meg Langslow Mysteries)

Six Geese A-Slaying: A Meg Langslow Christmas Mystery (Meg Langslow Mysteries) by Andrews, Donna. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780312536114.

Meg Langslow and Michaels house is serving as the marshaling point for the annual Caerphilly holiday parade. The theme is "The Twelve Days of Christmas," and it features twelve drummers from the school marching band, eleven bagpipers, ten leaping lords costumed in medieval finery from the college drama department, and so on. There are also assorted floats, a live nativity scene on a flatbed truck, the Three Wise Men on Caerphilly zoo camels, and Santa in a bright red horse-drawn sleigh. As organizer, Megs job is already hard enough. But when her nephew Eric, wide-eyed and ashen-faced, whispers, "somethings wrong with Santa," things take a tragic turn. Turns out the local curmudgeon, whose beard and belly made him a natural for the role, has been murdered. Now its up to Meg and Chief Burke, who is playing one of the wise men, to tackle a two-fold mission: Solving the murder and saving Christmas…