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While the police investigation into her continued, her latest novel, The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour, was shortlisted for a Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, one of the oldest literary prizes in Canada.

"He wrote for eight hours almost every day," his friend Victoria Leacock once recalled.

My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama.

Menapace, Leacock’s collaborator, said the biggest issue they were now grappling with was how to create a sense of pace and suspense.

All four grew up under their father’s tutelage in the basement weight room of the family’s Upper Leacock Township home.