This Myrtle Clover box set bundle which has books 46 in the series contains A Body in the Backyard Death at a DropIn and A Body at Book Club These books collectively have over 750 four and fivestar reviews A Body in the Backyard Its just an ordinary day for octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover until her yardman discovers a dead body planted in her backyard This death isnt cut and dried the victim was bashed in the head with one of Myrtles garden gnomes Myrtles friend Miles recognizes the body and identifies him as Charles Clayborne reluctantly admitting hes a cousin Charles wasnt the sort of relative you bragged about he was a garden variety sleaze which is very likely why he ended up murdered As Myrtle starts digging up dirt to nip the killings in the bud someones focused on scaring her off the case Myrtle vows to find the murderer before shes pushing up daisies herself Death at a DropIn Youre invited to a deadly dropin Cosette Whitlow is a society matronif tiny Bradley North Carolina has one She kindly volunteers for all the towns charities but isnt nearly as kind to her own family neighbors and friends In fact Cosette is emphatically disliked by much of the townincluding octogenarian Myrtle Clover And Myrtle knows that dislike in Bradley can quickly turn deadlyNo one seems surprised when Cosettes body is discovered during a party shes hostingshe was struck on the head with a croquet mallet Wanting to restore order to the small town Myrtle resolves to track down the killerbefore the killer strikes again A Body at Book Club This is one book club meeting that doesnt go by the book When octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover discovers Naomi Pelters dead body during a book club meeting the other members seem shocked But Myrtle can read between the lines Naomi had riled everyone up by flirting with other peoples husbands arguing with neighbors and generally making a nuisance of herself Murdering troublemakers is the oldest trick in the book The book club members seem too sweet to be killers but Myrtle knows better than to judge books by their covers Myrtles investigation into the murder will take a more novel approach than her police chief sons bythebook methods Can Myrtle and her widower sidekick uncover the killerbefore he writes them off for good