Exit the milkman - Charlotte MacLeod

Prof. Jim Feldster will do anything for his cows and his students of dairy management...and anything to avoid an evening at home with his bossy, house-proud wife, Mirelle. A member of every lodge in the county, he's out of the house most evenings, and on this particular night, escaping to a meeting of the Scarlet Runners. On the way, he bumps into Peter Shandy, who is out strolling with his cat, Jane Austen.
But Professor Feldster never arrives at his meeting. Where could he be? And what dark secrets could possibly be lurking behind his life of grain supplements and electric milking machines? Investigating the case, Shandy discovers that Feldster - assuming he isn't dead already - is in terrible danger, as is Mirelle, and it's a lot more serious than someone tracking mud on her white carpet....