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The Palace Guard - (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries) by Charlotte MacLeod (Paperback)

The Palace Guard - (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries) by  Charlotte MacLeod (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A museum robbery leaves a guard dead, and two Boston sleuths investigate: "If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you" (Margaret Maron).</b> <br> It's only been a few months since Sarah Kelling's elderly husband passed away, and she's struggling to adapt to life as a penniless young widow. To make ends meet, she converts her stately Boston home into a boardinghouse, a decision that brings something even better than money: the company of art-fraud investigator Max Bittersohn. The budding couple is standing on a balcony, recovering from a second-rate concert at a third-rate museum, when something plummets past them. The museum has been robbed, and a guard has fallen to his death. Dozens of priceless paintings have been stolen and replaced with forgeries, and recovering these masterworks will mean tearing the lid off the quiet life of the Boston upper crust. But it's a chance Sarah and Max must take, lest they join the guard on his long trip down.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you!" --Margaret Maron, author of <i>The Buzzard Table</i> "One of the most gifted mystery authors writing today." --<i>Sojourner: </i><i>The Women's Forum</i> "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea." --<i>Chicago Tribune </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an international bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children's book called <i>Mystery of the White Knight. </i><i> </i> In <i>Rest You Merry</i> (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. <i>The Family Vault </i>(1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, <i>The Balloon Man</i>, in 1998.

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