Fox, you stole the goose (novel)
Fuchs, you stole the goose (original title: A Season for Murder 1991) is the second novel by the crime writer Ann Granger around Chief Inspector Alan Markby and the civil servant Meredith Mitchell.
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Meredith Mitchell is transferred back to England. There she rents Rose Cottage in the hamlet of Pook's Common from the daughter of her cousin Eve Owen. There she meets Inspector Markby again, who continues to woo her. Meredith soon befriends her neighbor Harriet Needham, who a little later falls from her horse during the traditional Christmas hunt, which is frightened by protester Simon Pardy and dies. The night before the judicial investigation, Pardy is murdered.
It turns out that Pardy's attorney Colin Deans was married to a friend of Harriet's years ago. Harriet believed Deanes killed his wife and planned to announce this when Colin's new book was published. Deans wanted to scare her with anonymous letters and the like that he had Pardy write. The morning before the hunt, he mixed her tranquilizer into breakfast and hoped she would fall off the horse while hunting. Fearing that Pardy would reveal that he had asked him to write the letters, he killed him too. When Meredith finds out, Deans tries to strangle her, which is prevented by Markby, Harriet's cousin and Tom Fearon.
Acting persons
- Chief Inspector Alan Markby,
- Meredith Mitchell, civil servant,
- Harriet Needham, her neighbor,
- Thomas Fearon, stable owner friend of Harriet,
- Mrs. Brisset, cleaning lady with Harriet and Meredith,
- Simon Pardy, young protester,
- Colin Deans, writer and lawyer,
- Frank Pringle, colleague of Dr. Russell,
- Frances Needham-Burrell, Harriet's cousin,
- Laura Danby, Markby's sister,