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The Palace Guard (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery #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 co...more
Hardcover, Book Club Edition, 183 pages
Published
1981
by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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The antics of the Kellings hit new highs in this third book of the Kelling/Bittersohn saga. The new characters are delightful or horrible, as the case may be, as Max and Sarah continue to investigate crime in Boston. This time I had figured out part of the mystery as far as the perpetrators were concerned, but missed about half the motive. The ending was more than satisfactory. I particularly like the way Sarah picks up deserving and wonderful characters who are down on their luck and makes thei...more
I seem to be reading a lot of books about art and this was a welcome addition. The underbelly of the art world is very seedy and I had no idea the amount of money and hayhem that is generated by this industry. Good reading and I had read the "The withdrawing room" first so this was the next in line.
This third book in the series is another quick read, but is as charming as the rest. One of Sarah's innumerable relatives gets involved with murder and art forgery at a Boston museum. Sarah and Max come to the rescue.
another member of sarah's family becomes involved in murder.this time in a boston museum . max and sarah solve the mystery.
Way too campy for me. I assume it was supposed to be a satire on the British cozy mystery??
I didn't think this book was as good as the first in the series.
The palace guard by Charlotte MacLeod (1981)
Fun quick read. Enjoyable
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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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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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