The Balloon Man, Charlotte MacLeod
The Balloon Man, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Balloon Man

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2021


Synopsis

Long-lost relatives and priceless jewels turn a wedding upside down

For all the Kellings' quirks, no other family in Boston is more adept at throwing a wedding. So when Max Bittersohn's wife, Sarah Kelling, offers to organize his nephew's nuptials, Max is smart enough to stay out of her way. But when the art-fraud investigator stumbles onto a family mystery, he is drawn into something far more serious than the question of who will catch the bouquet. Stolen years earlier, the priceless Kelling jewels were last seen in Amsterdam, so how did they end up among the wedding gifts?

Max is trying to answer that question when a talkative burglar wallops him with a shovel in a failed attempt to rip off the rubies. Then, as the reception winds down, a hot-air balloon lands on the wedding tent, spilling out the Zickerys, a branch of the Kelling clan who prove even odder than the original strain. Family weddings are never easy, but for Max Bittersohn, this one could be murder.

About Charlotte MacLeod

Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an internationally 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dianne on November 05, 2022

I’m sad to have reached the end of this series. I came to really like the characters that populated her stories. What a wild assortment of people!......more

Goodreads review by Louise on December 21, 2012

My first MacLeod book, so there are many, many characters to keep track of and history to know that I don't. My big objection is the editing -- many small words incorrect (of, for, etc) and the "evil" family's name switches from Zickery to Vickery and back several times. I'm going to look for one of......more

Goodreads review by Michele on January 18, 2013

I am enjoying rereading this series tremendously. cozy mystery, love and romance. quirky family. what's not to love?......more

Goodreads review by moxieBK on January 21, 2021

The Balloon Man — Charlotte MacLeod (23 chapters) Jan 16-21, 2021 Sarah and Max have quite a case this time, as the rubies from the very first book show up and Max’s nephew’s wedding and cause quite a commotion for the detectives. A typical Kelling/Bittersohn case, with all the regular characters, whi......more

Goodreads review by PR on October 25, 2024

Interesting. Neat wedding to a point...so much else to worry about... Complex,sometimes confusing, sort of convelluted, and confounding tales. A lot going on in this one...maybre? more than usual. Read a number of pages aloud to my husband because this woman writes funny! And...both of us were very cons......more