Glennkill: Ein Schafskrimi is the original German title of Three Bags Full: a sheep detective story, written by Leonie Swann and translated by Anthea Bell. The story follows a herd of sheep as they try to find out who murdered their shepherd.
This book provides examples of:
- All Love Is Unrequited: Beth to George, Ham to Kate, Father Will to Alice, and possibly Kate to George
- Big Eater: Mopple the Whale, as the name implies.
- Crapsaccharine World: The sheep are utterly adorable as they go about solving a murder.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: at the Smartest Sheep of Glennkill Contest, Tom O'Malley stands up and shouts "The sheep! They're trying to tell us about George's murder! The bartender's response? "Sit down. You're drunk again."
- Dark Secret: George was using his sheep to smuggle drugs for the mysterious man's organization in exchange for favours like making sure a meat processing plant was not built near the village.
- Disney Dog Fight: How the lawyer determines that Rebecca is to bring the sheep to Europe.
- Hypocritical Humor: When the mysterious man shows up to murder Rebecca, she pleads with him, "Isn't there anything I can do to convince you I'm not a threat?" He replies "That would be nice, but I'm not quite that unprofessional." "I didn't mean that! They do it anyway.
- Never Found the Body: George went out to look for Melmoth. He came back without Melmoth and smelling like death.
- Predators Are Mean: The sheep do not like dogs. Or the butcher.
- Punny Name: The book's German title is Glennkill. The shepherd, George Glenn, is killed.
- Suicide, Not Murder: George's killer was himself.
- The Ghost: Willow is said to be the second least talkative sheep of the herd. The least talkative sheep is never shown.
