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  • THE SARAH KELLING AND MAX BITTERSOHN MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
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    THE SARAH KELLING AND MAX BITTERSOHN MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    The first three novels featuring the sleuthing Boston couple: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea." — Chicago Tribune Packed with wit, simmering romance, and complicated crimes, the whodunits in this delightfully cozy collection from the two-time Edgar Award finalist include: The Family Vault An aging burlesque star's fresh corpse turns up in an old family ...

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  • THE BILBAO LOOKING GLASS
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    THE BILBAO LOOKING GLASS
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A couple finds an antique mirror that isn't broken, but still brings bad luck—"MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate, and charming mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).   According to Max Bittersohn, he and Sarah Kelling have witnessed enough murder and unhappiness, so it's high time they got married. And though Sarah hasn't yet agreed to such drastic measures, she invites M...

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  • THE CONVIVIAL CODFISH
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    THE CONVIVIAL CODFISH
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Christmas crimes hit close to home for Boston's favorite art sleuths. "Charlotte MacLeod's mysteries are witty and full of humor" ( Maine Crime Writers).   The angry old men of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish club celebrate yuletide doing what they do best: eating, drinking, and greeting the season of giving with a spirited "bah, humbug!" Though well past sixty, Jem Kelli...

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  • THE TERRIBLE TIDE
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    THE TERRIBLE TIDE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A supposedly haunted house contains even more frightening secrets among the living in this cozy mystery from the international bestselling author.   Holly Howe is just beginning to succeed in in the cutthroat world of New York modeling when a car accident ruins her good looks forever and she is forced to retreat to the backwoods of Canada, to recuperate in her brother's ramshac...

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  • THE WITHDRAWING ROOM
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    THE WITHDRAWING ROOM
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Death pays a visit to Sarah Kelling's Boston boardinghouse in this cozy mystery from the bestselling author of the Peter Shandy series.   Though the inheritance from her dearly departed Alexander was meant to set Sarah Kelling up for life, it vanishes quickly in the face of hounding from charitable organizations and the IRS. Facing the loss of her stately Back Bay brownstone, S...

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  • THE CURSE OF THE GIANT HOGWEED
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    THE CURSE OF THE GIANT HOGWEED
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Chasing a vile English plant, Professor Peter Shandy and his friends go on a most peculiar trip The giant hogweed, a creeping menace known for crushing the life out of any plant foolish enough to get in its way, has put the hedgerows and pastures of the English countryside in jeopardy. Fishermen find their streams clogged, young lovers are caught with rashes in embarrassing pla...

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  • EXIT THE MILKMAN
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    EXIT THE MILKMAN
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    The international bestselling author "again demonstrates her skill and with incomparable whimsy makes her bucolic puzzles great fun" ( Publishers Weekly).   Although he towers over his neighbors, Jim Feldster is otherwise unremarkable, except for his mastery of cow milking and his membership in every lodge, rotary club, and brotherhood that Balaclava County has to offer. And an...

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  • GRAB BAG
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    GRAB BAG
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Seventeen priceless stories from the author often referred to as "America's Agatha Christie" Charlotte MacLeod's heroes were men and women like Peter Shandy and Sarah Kelling—genteel sleuths who fight crime with brains, not brawn—and her settings were the drawing rooms and servants' quarters of New England and beyond. With a keen wit and a strong eye for detail, she crafted som...

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  • THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS QUILT A BEE
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    THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS QUILT A BEE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    When the seeds of a mystery are planted, gardening club member Dittany Henbit digs up clues in the cozy series from the international bestselling author.   The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers, but when water department supervisor John Architrave is found murdered in the woods, club member Di...

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  • THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS PINCH A POKE
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    THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS PINCH A POKE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    The curtains almost close on an actor in this cozy gardening club mystery featuring amateur sleuth Dittany Henbit and her husband, Osbert Monk.   When Jenson Thorbisher-Freep announces an amateur theatrical contest, the women in the Grub-and-Stake gardening club race to join in. They enlist Osbert Monk as their playwright—not only is he married to their club leader Dittany Monk...

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  • THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS SPIN A YARN
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    THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS SPIN A YARN
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A murder in a yarn store leads to some wild and woolly adventures in this "energetic and merry" mystery ( Publishers Weekly).   When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town races to Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy's Yarnery to begin work on a complete wardrobe of hats, booties, and tiny sweaters. One customer, how...

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  • THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS MOVE A MOUNTAIN
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    THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS MOVE A MOUNTAIN
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A small town gardening—and archery—club must solve a murder case and save their town from developers in the first cozy mystery featuring Dittany Henbit.   Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with a bow and arrow. Practicing the craft, freelance secretary Dittany Henbit is strolling through the woods...

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  • THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS HOUSE A HAUNT
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    THE GRUB-AND-STAKERS HOUSE A HAUNT
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A widowed gardener meets a ghost from frontier times who's out for revenge: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea" ( Chicago Tribune).   Zilla Trott is pouring her cat some chamomile tea when the drifter appears in her kitchen. He is grubby and crude—not at all the kind of person you'd usually find in the pleasant town of Lobelia Falls—but something about him...

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  • THE LUCK RUNS OUT
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    THE LUCK RUNS OUT
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    At Balaclava Agricultural College, a kidnapping and pig-napping are followed by murder   Newlyweds Peter and Helen Shandy are picking out flatware when a pair of gun-toting hooligans bursts into the silversmith's shop, emptying the safe and leaving with Helen as their hostage. Although the police recover Helen quickly, her professor husband is badly shaken by the ordeal. Early ...

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  • AN OWL TOO MANY
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    AN OWL TOO MANY
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Professor Peter Shandy returns in "a high-flying farce with humor that ranges from broad slapstick to quiet witticisms. . . . This murder most fowl is a hoot" ( Publishers Weekly).   Emory Emmerick comes to Balaclava Agricultural University as a scout for a television station. Although the faculty and students are hardly ready for prime time, Emmerick's interest is in environme...

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  • REST YOU MERRY
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    REST YOU MERRY
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A Christmas scrooge discovers a murdered librarian in this holiday novel from an Edgar Award finalist known for her "witty, literate, and charming" mysteries ( Publishers Weekly).   Each December, the faculty of Balaclava Agricultural College goes wild with holiday decorations. The entire campus glitters with Christmas lights, save for one dark spot: the home of professor Peter...

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  • SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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    SOMETHING IN THE WATER
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A poisoned potpie pulls botanist Peter Shandy into a local Maine mystery in the series that "offers a blooming good time" ( The Baltimore Sun).   Massachusetts horticulturalist Peter Shandy is famous for his rutabagas, but he comes to Maine with a loftier plant in mind. Specifically, he wants to size up the world-renowned lupines of Frances Rondel, a nonagenarian whose legendar...

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  • SOMETHING THE CAT DRAGGED IN
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    SOMETHING THE CAT DRAGGED IN
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A horticulturist and amateur sleuth roots out an irritating professor's killer in the Nero Award–winning mystery series.   An unpleasant man in every respect, university professor Herbert Ungley is exceedingly vain. One morning, his landlady catches her cat coming in with Ungley's hairpiece between its teeth. It's clear something has happened to the old grouch, because he would...

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  • VANE PURSUIT
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    VANE PURSUIT
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Antique weather vanes point Peter and Helen Shandy toward a gang of thieves in a mystery that's "the ultimate escapism . . . utterly hilarious" ( Publishers Weekly).   The weather vanes of the famous craftsman Praxiteles Lumpkin are one of the great cultural treasures of rural Massachusetts. Helen Shandy, librarian at Balaclava Agricultural College, is roaming the countryside, ...

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  • WRACK AND RUNE
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    WRACK AND RUNE
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A professor ponders the possibility of an ancient Viking curse while investigating a death by quicklime, in a novel by the Edgar Award–nominated author.   When 105-year-old Hilda Horsefall tells young reporter Cronkite Swope of a stone carved with Norse runes that once sat in the nearby woods, the writer starts salivating at the thought of breaking the news that Vikings once ma...

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  • A DISMAL THING TO DO
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    A DISMAL THING TO DO
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A Canadian snowstorm and an overturned truck lead to trouble: "MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate and charming mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).   Janet Rhys is driving through the backwoods of Canada when she sees the truck ahead of her lose control, smash into a snow bank, and flip sideways, completely blocking the road. Springing to action, she darts into a nearby ...

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  • THE FAMILY VAULT
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    THE FAMILY VAULT
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    An aging stripper's fresh corpse turns up in an old family tomb at Boston Common in this "first-rate suspense whodunit" ( The Cincinnati Post ).   Like many old New England families, the Kellings live to die. Although their family vault is spacious and comfortable, it will not do for Sarah Kelling's Great-Uncle Frederick. In his will, he demands to be buried inside the ancient ...

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  • THE GLADSTONE BAG
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    THE GLADSTONE BAG
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Family ties draw Boston's art sleuths into an island murder mystery in this "unalloyed pleasure" from the international bestselling author ( Publishers Weekly).   Though a few years past sixty, Sarah Kelling's Aunt Emma is as vigorous as a girl of twenty-two. She sings, she dances, and when the local fire department needs a fundraising boost, she's happy to jump out a window fo...

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  • MURDER GOES MUMMING
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    MURDER GOES MUMMING
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Murder turns a Christmas trip into a working holiday for Mountie Madoc Rhys and his bride-to-be in this holiday whodunit from the "cozy mystery queen" ( Early Bird Books).   Though he may not look the part, Madoc Rhys is a Mountie—and his keen sense of detection tells him it's time to ask Janet Wadman to marry him. They have just gotten engaged when Christmas rolls around, and ...

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  • THE ODD JOB
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    THE ODD JOB
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A museum murder puts Boston's married art sleuths to work: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea" ( Chicago Tribune). When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn—the savviest art detectives of the ...

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  • THE PALACE GUARD
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    THE PALACE GUARD
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A museum robbery leaves a guard dead, and two Boston sleuths investigate: "If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you" (Margaret Maron).   It's only been a few months since Sarah Kelling's elderly husband passed away, and she's struggling to adapt to life as a penniless young widow. To make ends meet, she converts her stately Boston home into a boarding...

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  • A PINT OF MURDER
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    A PINT OF MURDER
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    In rural Canada, a woman dies after eating from a jar of tainted green beans—and a Mountie must preserve the evidence. In a quiet small town in New Brunswick, old Agatha Treadway makes one last cranky complaint to her niece before dying on her kitchen floor. The cause seems to be a jar of contaminated string beans, which sat on Agatha's basement shelf for years before becoming ...

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  • THE PLAIN OLD MAN
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    THE PLAIN OLD MAN
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Murder upstages a Kelling family theatrical production—and Boston's art sleuths are on the case. "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea" ( Chicago Tribune).   Producing a Gilbert & Sullivan opera requires a special kind of madness, and the Kelling family is large enough and peculiar enough to undertake an entire company by themselves. For years now, Sarah Kell...

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  • THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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    THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    A "funny and exciting" mystery in the series featuring a husband-and-wife sleuthing team in Boston ( Publishers Weekly). Boston and its suburbs are stuffed with Kellings, and the city is about to get one more. Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn—a pair of amateur sleuths equally at home in back alleys as they are at black-tie balls—are about to have a baby. And if the ...

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  • THE RESURRECTION MAN
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    THE RESURRECTION MAN
    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD
    Boston's married art sleuths are about to discover that you can't fake a murder: "Entertaining . . . good humored . . . Sarah and Max are a winning team" ( Baltimore Sun).   If she weren't so fabulous, the Countess Lydia Ouspenska might be considered a gangster's moll. The last time she met Max Bittersohn, Boston's famed art-fraud investigator, she was forging minute Byzantine ...

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