A Body in the Backyard

Extreme gardening often involves gnomes and planted bodies...

It's just an ordinary day for octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover--until her yardman discovers a dead body planted in her backyard. This death isn't cut and dried--the victim was bashed in the head with one of Myrtle's garden gnomes.

Myrtle's friend Miles recognizes the body and identifies him as Charles Clayborne... reluctantly admitting he's a cousin. Charles wasn't the sort of relative you bragged about--he was a garden variety sl...