"...Once he gets fixed, his face will thin out some.” That didn’t sound desirable. Mr. Mustachio’s face was Mr. Mustachio’s face. Sam didn’t want it changed. He only wanted Algernon to be a responsible pet owner. Representative, he corrected himself, because Algernon hated the word owner too.
...Celine Levesque had left her millions to Mr. Mustachio instead of to Algernon specifically for the purpose of giving Mr. Mustachio the right to remain intact. [p. 43]
The primary plot here is about the unexpected demise of Joan Peabody, an old lady with a heart condition and a bad temper. Her will has gone astray, and PI and author Sam Jones becomes involved when the dead woman's niece asks him to help find it. Features an exploding mailbox, unpleasantly healthy baking, and small-town politics.
I enjoyed this one a lot (though the mystery of Mrs Peabody's death was not especially mysterious), and the scenes from Mr Mustachio's perspective were great. There's also further character development for some of the other residents of Chez Celine, and the central mystery -- which seemed apparent to me from the first chapters of Mr Mustachio is Falsely Accused -- is revealed late in the novel.
A quick, cosy and enjoyable read, so on to the next one!
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