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The Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries Volume One - The Family Vault The Withdrawing Room and The Palace Guard - cover

The Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries Volume One - The Family Vault The Withdrawing Room and The Palace Guard

Charlotte MacLeod

Publisher: MysteriousPress.com

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Summary

The first three novels featuring the sleuthing Boston couple: “The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod’s cup of tea.” —Chicago Tribune 
 
Packed with wit, simmering romance, and complicated crimes, the whodunits in this delightfully cozy collection from the two-time Edgar Award finalist include: 
 
The Family Vault 
 
An aging burlesque star’s fresh corpse turns up in an old family tomb at Boston Common and Sarah Kelling must investigate in this “first-rate suspense whodunit” (The Cincinnati Post). 
 
  
 
The Withdrawing Room 
 
Facing a dwindling inheritance and the loss of her stately Back Bay brownstone, Sarah opens her home to lodgers—deciding she prefers a boardinghouse to the poorhouse. But when the death of one resident is followed by another, she turns to detective Max Bittersohn for help . . . “One of the most gifted mystery authors writing today.” —Sojourner 
 
The Palace Guard 
 
A museum robbery leaves a guard dead, and art-fraud investigator Max teams up with widowed socialite Sarah to crack the case, even if it ruffles the feathers of the city’s upper crust . . . “If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you.” —Margaret Maron
Available since: 08/30/2022.
Print length: 759 pages.

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