Gilbert's last toothache

About this book

The Reverend Martin Buell, whose hilarious experiences at sleuthing were related by Margaret Scherf in *Always Murder a Friend*, is now caught in another peculiar situation. This sedate but charming clergyman is literally left holding the baby. Gilbert Sniveley, Martin's roommate at the Diocesan Convention in Glacier National Park, expired suddenly from a heart attack. His widow was almost immediately killed in an accident. With the orphaned baby, Martin returned to the home town where, in view of the unusually obscure background of the Sniveleys, he talked over the two deaths with the sheriff. Could either of them have been murder? Martin took to sleuthing again. His housekeeper, his friends, and parishioners threatened to tell the bishop that he was up to his old tricks, but Martin searched relentlessly for a possible solution to the mystery. In addition to a delightful portrait of Martin, Miss Scherf adds a whole gallery of likable characters - Henry Beaver, a handy-man neighbor, completely unimpressed by ecclesiastical atmosphere; Clyde Hunnicut, a sheriff whose first love was his horse, Violet; the Kettlehorn sisters, who knew everything about the town but told what they chose; Mrs. McCoy, an elderly lady with an agile and bawdy mind; and of course the dog, Bascomb. It all adds up to a delightful, thoroughly enjoyable story.