The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn is a cozy mystery written by Charlotte MacLeod under the pen name Alisa Craig. The book is about a murder in a yarn store that leads to a mystery. Twin-toting Dittany Monk, her Western-writer husband Osbert, and the Grub and Stake Gardening and Roving Club are snarled in another murder. Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy's Yarnery is the wildest, woolliest place in Lobelia Falls, Ontario. Expecting cousins from England, Miss Jane finds the corpse of a local mincemeat magnate cluttering her clean sidewalk.