A Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery
11 primary works • 13 total works
Book 1
A Crime Club selection, this intrguing tale has been reviewed as "...the very best whodunnit in many a day...Not to be missed." It starts with plans to bury deceased Great-uncle Frederick in the family vault on Beacon Hill. When the vault is opened, there's someone already there that no one could ever expect-the skeleton of a burlesque queen who disappeared thirty years ago! It's up to young Sarah Kelling to hold the shocked family together, and try to find out what happened. What she unravels is a complex murder plot that not only stretches into the past, but also has Sarah marked as a victim! - The third in a series of definitive edition of mysteries by America's Agatha Christie! - Second title in ibooks' Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn reissue program. - Over 1,000,000 Charlotte MacLeod novels have been sold worldwide. - Charlotte MacLeod is the American Mystery and Nero Wolfe Award-winning of the Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn and Professor Peter Shandy series of mysteries.
Book 2
Continuing the definitive series of classic mysteries by American Mystery and Nero Wolfe Award-winning author Charlotte MacLeod. What's the proper way for a Boston landlady to react when her most obnoxious boarder - curmudgeonly Barnwell Augustus Quiffen, gets squashed by a subway train? Sarah Kelling already has a far nicer applicant for the drawing room suite he lived in, but then an odd eye witness shows up on her doorstep, insisting somebody pushed Mr Quiffen under the train, and Sarah finds herself knee-deep in yet another mystery, aided by Max Bittersohn, an art expert with a very special sort of expertise...
Book 3
Sarah knows she shouldn't be here. The Kellings never did get invited back after that unfortunate incident when Madam Wilkins first opened her palatial museum to Boston's most critically outspoken Brahmins. But things have been quiet at Sarah's elegant Beacon Hill boarding house lately -- nobody's been murdered in months. Lodger Max Bittersohn has free passes to today's concert, and he's one man she finds hard to turn down. But then something falls past them from the floor above, and the oldest guard sprawls dead among the hyacinths.
Book 4
Sarah and her friend Max arive at her summer home for a quiet holiday and find an old Bilbao looking glass that Sarah's never seen before. Mindful of burglaries Max calls the police. Appie Kelling arives and brings her own chaos; her son and her four grandsons. They are roudy but are they theives and murders?
Book 6
Sarah' Aunt Emma's theatre troupe is doing The Sorcerer, as Emma has always hankered to play Lady Sangazure. Perhaps she made a bad choice, though, by casting a well-connected con man in the title role. It's no mere evil spell that leaves Charlie Daventer dead on his bathroom floor. But the show must go on. Cousin Frederick is hurled into the breach. Old Fred really can't tolerate the general assumption that his friend Charlie died by accident. He convinces Sarah that a murder has been committed. Sarah's husband, Max the detective, is off in Finland, so she tackles the case herself. Clues aren't hard to find and when Sarah sorts them out, she learns that when the curtain falls that the show is far from over...
Book 7
Sarah and Max have joined with the rest of the Kelling clan to plan a black-tie charity auction. But just before the big event, one of the Centre's members is murdered, and an examination of the will points the finger of suspicion at the Kellings. To make matters even worse, another corpse pops up in the garden shed on the night of the ball. So who wants to sabotage the Centre and pull down the Kelling name?
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
Boston-based art detectives Sarah Kelling and husband Max Bittersohn were hoping for some time offafter their last case. That hope dies quickly though, when they run into Countess Lydia Ouspenska, an expert forger of Byzantine icons. She tells them that an old aquaintance, Bartolo Arbalest, known in their circles as "The Resurrection Man" because of his skills in restoring damaged works of art, has set-up a Renaissance-style "guild" in their fair city. Nothing mysterious about that of course, except for the fact that some of Boston's wealthiest citizens have been murdered shortly after valuable object d'arts restored by Arbalest's organisation were returned to them. When Sarah's old friend George Protherie becomes the latest victim, her investigation, which ties in with Max's search into Arablest's background, reveals that Protherie was not the staid Boston Brahmin he appeared. In fact, he was guarding an array of secrets that stretch back to his old days as an importer of oriental antiquities...
Book 11
Book 12
Art detective Max Bittersohn knows when to lie low. He wisely keeps out of the way when his wife, Sarah Kelling, plans a huge wedding for his nephew at their Boston North Shore mansion. By the time the Kelling and Bittersohn clans arrive on the big day, everything, including the weather, seems perfect. But even Sarah can't foresee a hot air balloon landing on the wedding tent - or the squashed corpse beneath it. And no one anticipates one of the biggest surprises in the Kelling family history: the mysterious reappearance among the wedding gifts of the long-lost Kelling rubies. No believer in coincidence, Max soon rises to the challenge of tying the events together. Meanwhile Sarah's psychic cousin Theonia is seeing visions in her tea leaves, which may prove uncannily accurate ... or a red herring among the orange Pekoe. Then Max vanishes into thin air. Soon Sarah is rallying kith and kin to search for him, while danger descends on their three-year-old son, Davy - in one of the best Charlotte MacLeod mysteries ever.
After years of toiling upward through the ranks, Jeremy Kelling has finally attained his goal: to preside as Exalted Chowderhead over the Annual Scrooge Day revels of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish. Suddenly, at the height of the ceremonies, Jeremy discovers that he's been robbed of his extremely valuable emblem of office. The Great Chain of the Convivial Cod is gone! He calls he new nephew in law, Max Bittersohn, who isn't inclined to take the Codfish seriously - until Jeremy falls victim to what may, or may not, be a particularly vicious practical joke. From then on, it's champagne, caviar, and cold-blooded mass mayhem in high society as Max puts his life on the line to find a killer.
The Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries Volume One
by Charlotte MacLeod
Published 30 August 2022