Charlotte MacLeod

Author profile

born

November 12, 1922 in New Brunswick, Canada

died

January 14, 2005

gender

female

website

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/charlotte-m...

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Naturalized US Citizen

Also wrote as Alisa Craig

Charlotte MacLeod, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, is the multi-award-winning author of over thirty acclaimed novels. Her series featuring detective Professor Peter Shandy, America's homegrown Hercule Poirot, delivers "generous dollops of...warmth, wit, and whimsy" (San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). But fully a dozen novels star her popular husband-and-wife team of Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn. And her native Canada provides a backdrop for the amusing Grub-and-Stakers cozies written under the pseudonym Alisa Craig. A cofounder and past president of the American Crime Writers League, she has also edited the bestselling anthologies Mistletoe Mysterie...more

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Books by Charlotte MacLeod

Average rating: 3.72 · 4,365 ratings · 215 reviews · 59 distinct works

	Rest You Merry (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery #1) 3.92 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Family Vault (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #1) 3.85 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Silver Ghost (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #8) 3.75 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Bilbao Looking Glass (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery, #4) 3.75 avg rating — 171 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Withdrawing Room (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #2) 3.78 avg rating — 171 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Convivial Codfish (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery, #5) 3.80 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery #6) 3.73 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Luck Runs Out (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Something the Cat Dragged in (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery #4) 3.79 avg rating — 146 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Palace Guard (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #3) 3.74 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Series by Charlotte MacLeod

Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery (12 books)
by Charlotte MacLeod

3.70 avg rating — 1,924 ratings

Professor Peter Shandy Mystery (10 books)
by Charlotte MacLeod

3.75 avg rating — 1,512 ratings

Grub-And-Stakers (5 books)
by Charlotte MacLeod

3.85 avg rating — 375 ratings

Quotes by Charlotte MacLeod

“The trip itself was the usual...adulation from all sides, rose petals strewn in my path everywhere I went, silver bells festooning the howdah on my private white elephant...you know the drill. I maintained my customary demeanor or regal calm and enigmatic silence throughout.”
― Charlotte MacLeod

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