The Dog on the Roof

The proprietor of Oaxaca's Casa Colonial hotel, sensible, matronly Do$a Milly, finds herself on the case of several recent murders, including that of a wealthy-looking person whose corpse showed up in her Zapotec neighbors' cornfield. The Dog on the Roof: A Casa Colonial Mystery, Mary Madsen Hallock's lighthearted debut, features an assortment of temperamental tourists, Zapotec farmers and Mexico City gangsters trying to coerce those farmers to grow marijuana.