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The Bilbao Looking Glass (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #4)
Sarah Kelling and her art detective friend, Max Bittersohn, arrive at her summer home to find a lovely old Bilbao looking glass. Sarah’s never seen this precious antique before so, mindful of burglaries, Max calls the police. Appie Kelling arrives, bringing her own special brand of total chaos, her son, Lionel, and her four grandsons. They make Genghis Kahn’s horde look li...more
Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages
Published
February 28th 1984
by Avon Books
(first published 1983)
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Sarah and Max deal with Sarah's Yacht club friends or rather Alexander's friends who wish to protect her from that Jewish fellow Bittersohn. Instead they decide who would be most suitable for Sarah to marry from among their number to keep her in her proper social milieu. Meanwhile Max's family are having their own difficulties with accepting Sarah.
Lionel and Appie Kelling began as very simple flat characters but showed up with Lionel being more interesting and his children being better than the...more
Lionel and Appie Kelling began as very simple flat characters but showed up with Lionel being more interesting and his children being better than the...more
It was hard to put this book down before finishing, so I didn't. Although the characters aren't as wonderful and whacky as in previous books, this book presents class consciousness (where classes aren't supposed to exit) from both sides, and it is done well. The little asides, the outright rudeness, and the all-pervasive "them" and "we" trap Sarah and Max in the middle, forcing the reader to root for the couple against both sides. There are moments when you wonder how Max and Sarah will ever get...more
sarah opens her summer place on cape cod. there is, of course, a murder involving sarah & max who is staying in an apt over the carriage house/garage. an old flame of sarah appears.
Another charming book in one of my favorite series. Sarah and Max open her summer house and get involved with the snobby yachting crowd and a couple of murders.
Apr 17, 2010
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The Bilbao Looking Glass by Charlotte MacLeod (1984)
Fun quick read.
The mystery part was really interesting but I really don't like the characters sleeping with each other before marriage and have it presented as the thing to do.
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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...more
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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...more
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