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 Mystery of
the White Knight.
In Rest You Merry (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter
Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she
would chronicle for two decades. The Family Vault (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, The Balloon Man, in
1998.
"If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you!" --Margaret Maron, author of The Buzzard Table "Charlotte MacLeod does what she does better than anybody else does it; and what she does is in the top rank of modern mystery fiction." --Elizabeth Peters, creator of the Amelia Peabody series "Charm, wit, and Holmesian logic." --AudioFile
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