Charlotte MacLeod

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1964
  • Latest Book:
    July 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Peter & Helen Shandy

1 - Rest You Merry (Oct-1978)
2 - The Luck Runs Out (1979)
3 - Wrack and Rune (Dec-1981)
4 - Something the Cat Dragged In (Sep-1983)
5 - The Curse of the Giant Hogweed (Jan-1985)
6 - The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (Mar-1987)
7 - Vane Pursuit (Mar-1989)
8 - An Owl Too Many (Feb-1991)
9 - Something in the Water (Apr-1994)
10 - Exit the Milkman (Aug-1997)

A Sarah Kelling Mystery

1 - The Family Vault (Mar-1979)
2 - The Withdrawing Room (Oct-1980)
3 - The Palace Guard (Jul-1981)
4 - The Bilbao Looking Glass (Jan-1983)
5 - The Convivial Codfish (Jul-1984)
6 - The Plain Old Man (Aug-1985)
7 - The Recycled Citizen (Jan-1988)
8 - The Silver Ghost (Jul-1988)
9 - The Gladstone Bag (Jan-1990)
10 - The Resurrection Man (Apr-1992)
11 - The Odd Job (May-1995)
12 - The Balloon Man (Dec-1998)
13 - The Convival Codfish (Aug-2003)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The Mystery of the White Knight

    Alexandra -- Sandy -- Kellick had come from Colorado to help her aunt, May Brewster, with her antique shop in Massachusetts while that good lady went off on a buying trip. A small girl, with softly curling brown hair and a delicate heart-shaped fa...

  • Ask Me No Questions.

  • Rest You Merry

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 1

    BODIES ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS And Christmas was very big business at Balaclava Agricultural College where the campus ''Illumination" attracted hosts of joyful tourists. So when Professor Peter Shandy found a faculty wife sprawled dead on his living ...

  • The Luck Runs Out

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    Peter & Helen Shandy - 2

    HORSESHOES AREN'T ALWAYS LUCKY The faculty and students at Balaclava Agricultural College thought that whoever turned the horseshoes upside-down in the stables didn't really mean to bring bad luck--until the college's prize sow Belinda is pignappe...

  • The Family Vault

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 1

    SHE MUST HAVE BEEN A BEAUTIFUL CORPSE... She has rubies in her teeth, a crimson skirt, and not a shred of skin on her bones. She's burlesque queen Ruby Redd, missing these past thirty years, and Sarah Kelling has just discovered her sprawled grot...

  • Next Door to Danger

    Adelaide Cutter had been scarred physically as well as emotionally by the ugly circumstances of her father’s death. Now, as a shy but enthusiastic beginner in an art studio, she was starting a new life for herself. If her tiny Beacon Hill apartment...

  • The Withdrawing Room

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 2

    Money problems are making pretty Sarah Kelling anything but a merry widow. Renting out rooms to Boston's upper crust seems the very proper way to survive genteel poverty on Beacon Hill--until the curmudgeonly old gentleman in the withdrawing room sui...

  • The Grub-And-Stakers Move a Mountain

    WILDFLOWERS, MOLASSES COOKIES…AND HOMEMADE MURDER Who on earth was disturbing the Spotted Pipssisewa? That’s what Miss Dittany Henbit wanted to know when she found a strange young man from the Water Department running a bulldozer over the alre...

  • The Palace Guard

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 3

    CHAMBER MUSIC, CHANDELIERS, AND SUDDEN DEATH Nobody has been murdered at Sarah Kelling's elegant Beacon Hill boarding house in months. So she accepts an invitation from her favorite lodger Max Bittersohn to attend a Sunday concert at Madam Wilkins...



  • Wrack and Rune

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 3

    A gruesome murder leads Professor Peter Shandy to uncover an ancient Viking curse. When 105-year-old Hilda Horsefall tells young reporter Cronkite Swope of a stone carved with Norse runes that once sat in the nearby woods, the writer starts saliva...

  • Cirak's Daughter

    A young woman investigates the death of her wealthy, estranged father in a small Rhode Island town in this novel by the author of the Peter Shandy Mysteries. -- Murder can happen anywhere, even in sleepy Meldrum, Rhode Island. And while the town’...

  • The Bilbao Looking Glass

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 4

    CLAMBAKES, BOAT RACES, AND SUMMER MURDER A full winter season spent solving cases of sudden death has left pretty widow Sarah Kelling sorely in need of a vacation. Her summer estate at historic Ireson's Landing seems the perfect place. There's sea...

  • Something the Cat Dragged In

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 4

    AN OLD CODGER, A TOMCAT, AND A KILLER The venerable Herbert Ungley wouldn't have been caught dead without his toupee. So when his landlady's cat dragged it into her kitchen, Betsy Lomax knew something was amiss. When she found old Ungley lying beh...

  • The Convivial Codfish

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 5

    After years of toiling upward through the ranks, Jeremy Kelling has finally attained his goal: to preside as Exalted Chowderhead over the Annual Scrooge Day revels of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish. Suddenly, at the height of the ceremonies, J...

  • The Curse of the Giant Hogweed

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 5

    FIELD TRIPS AND EERIE ACCIDENTS Professor Shandy, propagator of the world's most renowned rutabaga and Balaclava College's best amateur sleuth, takes on the case of the Giant Hogweed--a garden pest about to wipe out Britain's lovely hedgerows. Wit...

  • The Plain Old Man

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 6

    THE CURTAIN CAME DOWN ON MURDER Aunt Emma Kelling didn't have an enemy in the world. But she did have "Ernestina"-- an invaluable old portrait inherited with Pleasaunce, her New England mansion--and a passion for producing Gilbert & Sullivan. S...

  • Maid of Honor

    A young woman must escape family conflict -- and find her own identity -- in order to track down a thief in this novel by an acclaimed mystery writer. -- Persis Green’s existence has been overshadowed by the looming prospect of her older sister...

  • Grab Bag

    DASTARDLY DILEMMAS... MYSTERIOUS AFFAIRS... FELONIOUS FELLOWSHIPS They're all ready to pop out of this potpourri of perilous predicaments from the Queen of the Whimsical Whodunit, CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Featuring all her favorite sleuths--Max Bitterso...

  • The Corpse in Oozak's Pond

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 6

    Avid birdwatcher Professor Peter Shandy of Balaclava Agricultural College scans the wind-swept waters of Oozak's Pond. Suddenly, out from under the icecakes, up bobs a half-frozen corpse in a soggy suit of clothes nearly 100 years old. The body bears...



  • Terrible Tide

    Cliff House may be haunted, but no ghost is as scary as the family’s secret history. Holly Howe is just beginning to succeed in the cutthroat world of New York modeling when a car accident ruins her good looks forever and she is forced to retreat ...

  • The Recycled Citizen

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 7

    Sarah and her husband, Max, have joined with the rest of the Kelling clan to plan a black-tie charity auction: great-uncle Frederick s extensive collection of antique knickknacks and whatnots are to be sold, the proceeds going to fund the Senior Citi...

  • The Silver Ghost

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 8

    Once again, Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max. Bittersohn, are drawn into a tangle of murderous events courtesy of Sarah's eccentric family. Uncle Jeremy's friends Bill and Abigail Billingsgate are holding their annual Renaissance Revel at the su...

  • Vane Pursuit

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 7

    A dastardly gang of rogues is sneaking around Balaclava county, snatching priceless antique Praxiteles Lumpkin weathervanes. Before they disappear entirely, Helen Shandy decides to photograph several of them for the Balaclava Historical Society files...

  • Mistletoe Mysteries

    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 the...

  • The Gladstone Bag

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 9

    Sarah Kelling's Aunt Emma is a woman who throws herself into good works, such as leaping from a burning building into a net to raise money for a fireman's widow. Now old friend Adelaide Sabine needs a hostess for her isolated summer place on Pocap...

  • An Owl Too Many

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 8

    The Annual Owl Count is serious business at Balaclava Agricultural College. So why does a team that includes the redoubtable Professors Shandy, Stott and Binks also include a boorish avian ignoramus like Emory Emmerick? And how could Emmerick have ha...

  • A Long Time Sitting

    in Cat Crimes 2
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    From the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers comes CAT CRIMES 2, a chilling collection of original stories that will leave cat- and mystery-lovers purring for more. Inside you'll encounter the Bogart drawl of P...

  • The Resurrection Man

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 10

    Renowned art detective Max Bittersohn (who also happens to be the beloved husband of Boston socialite Sarah Kelling) is enjoying a summer stroll when he's accosted by Countess Lydia Ouspenska. That vintage vamp and faithful forger of Byzantine bibelo...

  • The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner

    in Malice Domestic 1

    CHARLOTTE MACLEOD ruffles feathers on Beacon Hill...BARBARA PAUL visits with a fatally clumsy clan...D.R. MEREDITH tells a murderer to go fly a kite...AUDREY PETERSON pursues a shadowy gentleman caller...VALERIE FRANKEL tracks a catnapper in Brooklyn...



  • Something in the Water

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 9

    RURAL MAINE AND DIRTY SECRETS…FERTILE GROUND FOR MURDER! Professor Peter Shandy, New England’s homegrown Hercule Poirot, has journeyed to the Maine coast in search of a mystery flower -- and to escape his wife’s all female house party. Now, ...

  • A Dismal Thing to Do

    THE MRS. IS MISSING It’s bad news for Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His wife’s new car has been found abandoned in the middle of nowhere -- with nothing inside but her handbag and a faint odor of burning....

  • Christmas Stalkings

    The newest entry in the popular series, this volume presents a festive feast of murder and mayhem from today's top masters of mystery--delightfully sinister tales from Elizabeth Peters, Robert Barnard, Reginald Hill, and Charlotte MacLeod. "A package...

  • The Odd Job

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 11

    DODGING AN ARTFUL KILLER While her art detective husband, Max Bittersohn, chases Watteaus in Argentina, Sarah Kelling lunches with the feuding eccentrics of the Wilkins private museum. Then feisty administrator--and talented art forger--Dolores Ta...

  • More Like Martine

    in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Exit the Milkman

    Peter & Helen Shandy - 10

    Prof. Jim Feldster will do anything for his cows and his students of dairy management ... and anything to avoid an evening at home with his bossy, house-proud wife, Mirelle. A member of every lodge in the county, he's out of the house most evenings, ...

  • The Balloon Man

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 12

    HOT AIR ...AND A COLD CORPSE Sarah Kelling has her nephew's wedding perfectly planned, including an outdoor reception at their Boston mansion. But she doesn't anticipate a hot-air balloon landing on the wedding tent or the squashed body beneath it! E...

  • It Was an Awful Shame and Other Stories

  • The Convival Codfish

    A Sarah Kelling Mystery - 13

    After years of toiling upward through the ranks, Jeremy Kelling has finally attained his goal: to preside as Exalted Chowderhead over the Annual Scrooge Day revels of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish. Suddenly, at the height of the ceremonies, J...

  • The Fat Lady's Ghost

    A young art student catches a thief -- and finds her soul mate -- in this charming, early YA novel from the million-selling “mistress of the ‘cozy’ mystery” (Los Angeles Times).   Possessed of cool common sense and burning ambition, nine...



Award-Winning Books by Charlotte MacLeod

The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
1987 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charlotte MacLeod has published 39 books.

Charlotte MacLeod does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Fat Lady's Ghost, was published in July 2019.

The first book by Charlotte MacLeod, The Mystery of the White Knight, was published in January 1964.

Yes. Charlotte MacLeod has 2 series.
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