Charlotte MacLeod

Author profile

born

in New Brunswick, Canada

November 12, 1922

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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Charlotte MacLeod's Books

Average rating: 3.77 · 6,797 ratings · 381 reviews · 74 distinct works · Similar authors

	Rest You Merry (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery #1) 3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 544 ratings — published 1978 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family Vault (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #1) 3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 1979 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Ghost (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #8) 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1988 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Withdrawing Room (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #2) 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1980 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bilbao Looking Glass (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery, #4) 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery #6) 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1876 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Luck Runs Out (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery, #2) 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1979 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Convivial Codfish (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery, #5) 3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Palace Guard (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #3) 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something the Cat Dragged in (Professor Peter Shandy Mystery #4) 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Charlotte MacLeod

Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery (12 books)
by Charlotte MacLeod
3.786547700754976 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,914 ratings

Professor Peter Shandy Mystery (10 books)
by Charlotte MacLeod
3.7958137548056388 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 2,341 ratings

Grub-And-Stakers (5 books)
by Charlotte MacLeod
3.8132854578096946 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 557 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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