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Three Bags Full

a Sheep Detective Story
pleiadesrox
Jul 15, 2010pleiadesrox rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Without a doubt this has to be the most unusual set of detectives ever conceived. Swann (a pseudonym) has managed to create a sociological and metaphysical commentary on flocks, animals, villages, communities, families, and religion—in the guise of an enjoyable mystery story set in Ireland. Shepherd George Glenn is found dead in the middle of his beautiful pasture overlooking the sea, where he lives most of the time in a caravan with his flock of sheep on the fringes of the small isolated Irish town of Glennkill. He raises them for wool, and cares for them deeply. He feeds them special foods, reads to them, and teaches them by reading to them of sheep diseases. Most unsettling is that a spade has been driven though his body! The sheep are dismayed, but Miss Maple, the smartest, decides they must find out what happened........