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Charlotte MacLeod

Born

in New Brunswick, Canada

November 12, 1922

Died

January 14, 2005

Website

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

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Craig Rice, Jane Langton

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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, was 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 and the almost-police procedurals starring Madoc Rhys, RCMP. A cofounder and past president of the American Crime Writers League, she a ...more

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Charlotte MacLeod’s books

Average rating: 3.93 · 31,902 ratings · 2,374 reviews · 123 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 2,942 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Kelling & Bittersohn, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 2,269 ratings — published 1979 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Kelling & Bittersohn #2) 3.98 avg rating — 1,804 ratings — published 1980 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Wrack and Rune (Peter Shandy #3) 3.91 avg rating — 1,699 ratings — published 1982 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Peter Shandy, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,228 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Kelling & Bittersohn, #8) by Charlotte MacLeod, Mark Hess (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 1,133 ratings — published 1987 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Kelling & Bittersohn, #3) 3.94 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 1981 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Kelling & Bittersohn, #4) 3.93 avg rating — 1,107 ratings — published 1983 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Kelling & Bittersohn, #5) 3.96 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 1984 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Peter Shandy, #4) 3.92 avg rating — 973 ratings — published 1983 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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

Kelling & Bittersohn (12 books)
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Peter Shandy (10 books)
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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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“Don't you have something plain and wholesome, like scotch or bourbon?”
― Charlotte MacLeod, Vane Pursuit

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“Nor did she merely smile, she glowed with inner goodness that made him think of the vast iron cookstove in his grandmother's kitchen back on the farm. Here, he knew by certain instinct, was a woman who made wonderful cookies and would give you some.”
― Charlotte MacLeod, The Luck Runs Out

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