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Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005)

Autor/a de The Family Vault

64+ obres 11,276 Membres 205 Ressenyes 14 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Charlotte MacLeod was born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada on November 12, 1922. She immigrated to the United States in 1923 and became a naturalized citizen in 1951. She attended the School of Practical Art, now the Art Institute of Boston. She was a staff artist and copywriter at Stop and Shop mostra'n més supermarkets from 1945 to 1952. She also worked at N.H. Miller & Co. advertising firm from 1952 to 1982 starting as a copy chief and ending up as a Vice President. She wrote two series under her own name, a Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery series and the Peter Shandy Mystery series. She also wrote two series under the pseudonym Alisa Craig, the Madoc and Janet Rhys Mystery series and the Grub-and-Stakers series. She also wrote Had She But Known: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart and a dozen juvenile books. She won five American Mystery awards and a Nero Wolfe award. She edited the anthologies Mistletoe Mysteries and Christmas Stalkings. She is the co-founder and past president of the American Crime Writers League. She died on January 14, 2005 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Sèrie

Obres de Charlotte MacLeod

The Family Vault (1979) 532 exemplars
Rest You Merry (1978) 481 exemplars
The Withdrawing Room (1980) 441 exemplars
The Recycled Citizen (1988) 408 exemplars
The Palace Guard (1981) 382 exemplars
The Silver Ghost (1988) 380 exemplars
The Convivial Codfish (1984) 359 exemplars
The Bilbao Looking Glass (1983) 357 exemplars
The Plain Old Man (1985) 356 exemplars
The Resurrection Man (1992) 354 exemplars
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (1987) 352 exemplars
The Gladstone Bag (1989) 344 exemplars
An Owl Too Many (1991) 337 exemplars
The Odd Job (1995) 334 exemplars
Something in the Water (1994) 319 exemplars
The Luck Runs Out (1979) 319 exemplars
The Balloon Man (1998) 310 exemplars
Vane Pursuit (1989) 309 exemplars
Wrack and Rune (1981) 303 exemplars
Exit the Milkman (1996) 300 exemplars
A Pint of Murder (1980) 272 exemplars
The Wrong Rite (1992) 267 exemplars
Murder Goes Mumming (1981) 265 exemplars
The Curse of the Giant Hogweed (1984) 253 exemplars
Trouble in the Brasses (1989) 240 exemplars
Grab Bag (1987) 237 exemplars
Mistletoe Mysteries (1989) — Editor — 234 exemplars
A Dismal Thing to Do (1986) 229 exemplars
The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke (1988) 211 exemplars
The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn (1990) 200 exemplars
The Terrible Tide (1983) 198 exemplars
Christmas Stalkings (1991) — Editor — 198 exemplars
The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee (1985) 190 exemplars
Cirak's Daughter (1982) 29 exemplars
Very Merry Mysteries (3-in-1) (1999) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
King Devil (1978) 26 exemplars
Maid of Honor (1984) 23 exemplars
We Dare Not Go A-Hunting (1980) 18 exemplars
Astrology for Skeptics (1973) 9 exemplars
The Fat Lady's Ghost (2019) 8 exemplars
Next Door to Danger (1983) 6 exemplars
Brass Pounder (1971) 5 exemplars
Ask Me No Questions (1971) 5 exemplars
Peter Shandy, Books 1-10 (2004) 2 exemplars
Mouse's Vineyard 2 exemplars
More Like Martine 2 exemplars

Obres associades

Cat Crimes II (1992) — Col·laborador — 119 exemplars
A Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries (1994) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
The New Roger Caras Treasury of Great Cat Stories (1997) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers (1989) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Home Sweet Homicide (1991) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Mord als schöne Kunst betrachtet. (1999) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Crimes of Passion: Twenty-Three Tales of Love and Hate (1993) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 9, May 1978 (1978) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 1974 (1974) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 11, July 1976 (1976) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Banker | Murder in High Places | The Terrible Tide (1983) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Nom normalitzat
MacLeod, Charlotte
Altres noms
Craig, Alisa
Data de naixement
1922-11-12
Data de defunció
2005-01-14
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Bath, New Brunswick, Canada
Lloc de defunció
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Llocs de residència
Bath, New Brunswick, Canada
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Maine, USA
Educació
Art Institute of Boston
Professions
mystery novelist
Organitzacions
Crime Writers' League
Premis i honors
Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement(1998)
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award (1992)
Biografia breu
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 Mysteries and Christmas Stalkings.

Membres

Ressenyes

Audiobook.

Didn't get very far with this. Every time the narrator pronounced Rhys as 'Riss' it made me want to scream. Fortunately I had not paid anything - it was included in Audible membership.
 
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Kindleifier | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Feb 25, 2024 |
Sara has now turned her home into a Boarding House to pay off the mortgage debts that she has inherited and Max is one of her tenants in a basement apartment. He takes her to a museum as a treat (date?) where they happen to see an elderly guard falling over a railing to the courtyard below. This is the beginning of an investigation for fake art. Lots of interesting, beatnikie characters come into play plus the relatives and tenants of Sara’s.

I liked this book better than Family Vault. Max is obviously sweet on Sara and there’s plenty of funny situations and hijinks to make it a quick and amusing read. It is dated however.… (més)
 
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Kathy89 | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Jan 21, 2024 |
The family vault is opened for the burial of an uncle and there's a mystery brick wall inside. They discover a woman's skeleton who was a famous stripper in the 1950s. Sarah's husband is very upset and after the funeral they decide to go to their beach house with his mother, who lives with them, and is blind and deaf. The following morning Sarah's husband and mother-in-law go for a drive and lose control of the car and go off the cliff and are killed. Sarah believes the car was tampered with and then strange things start happening around the house. With the help of an insurance investigator, Sarah discovered what happened and how the deaths are linked together.… (més)
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Kathy89 | Hi ha 12 ressenyes més | Jan 19, 2024 |
A collection of contemporary Christmas murder mysteries by such authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and including one by Charlotte MacLeod.

FROM AMAZON: Every one of the great detectives of literature, from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot to Nero Wolfe, has endured a holiday marred by murder. Now, modern mystery writers including Mary Higgins Clark, Marcia Muller, Aaron Elkins, and others place their detectives in a Yuletide setting for a special mix of murder and mistletoe.
 
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Gmomaj | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Jan 13, 2024 |

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Elizabeth Peters Contributor
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Robert Barnard Contributor
Bill Crider Contributor
Reginald Hill Contributor
Medora Sale Contributor
Patricia Moyes Contributor
John Malcolm Contributor
M. C. Beaton Contributor
Mark Hess Cover artist
Mary Peiffer Narrator
Andi Arndt Narrator
Tristan Elwell Cover artist
Beate Felten Übersetzer
Barbara Buck Cover designer
Robert Aulicino Cover designer
Roy Pendleton Cover artist
Stanley Martucci Cover artist
Lisa Stokes Designer
Bonnie Conolly author photo
Dorothy Gear Narrator
Kenneth Gear Narrator

Estadístiques

Obres
64
També de
18
Membres
11,276
Popularitat
#2,086
Valoració
½ 3.6
Ressenyes
205
ISBN
487
Llengües
3
Preferit
14

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