Good, Clean Fun: a Meh-rathon

From Scrub-a-Dub-Dead (Ms. Theroux Mysteries, #24):

It was the dead of winter, and Ms. Theroux found herself cleaning a place that she often overlooked: her own apartment. She kept it orderly, but had not had time to give it a good going over in more than a week. Nor had she planned to today. After all, she’d been away tidying other people’s homes all day.

But she’d picked up on a strange smell while eating dinner, and decided she wouldn’t be able to sleep with it lingering in the air.

But nothing had removed it: not scrubbing out the dish she’d cooked dinner in, not mopping the floors, not laundering the sheets by hand.

My god, she thought. It must be me!

As she entered the bathroom, she realized she was partially right: she had smelled a body. Only, it had not been her own. It had been the corpse in her bathtub.

But who was it? And how had it gotten into her home? And why was it wearing only an ascot?

What better day for a spring-cleaning-themed Meh-ration than March 12th, the birthday of author Alicia Prescott? Creator of the character Ms. Theroux, the mystery-solving maid who appears in over 40 novels, Prescott has come to be known as “the queen of clean” in literary circles. So, stick around all day as we share excerpts from Prescott’s work, as well as tidbits from her letters, interviews, reviews, and more. Oh, and there will be deals too. On cleaning products. And also non-cleaning products.