The Bilbao Looking Glass, Charlotte MacLeod
The Bilbao Looking Glass, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Bilbao Looking Glass

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022

Synopsis

A couple finds an antique mirror that isn't broken, but still brings bad luck—"MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate, and charming mystery" (Publishers Weekly).

According to Max Bittersohn, he and Sarah Kelling have witnessed enough murder and unhappiness, so it's high time they got married. And though Sarah hasn't yet agreed to such drastic measures, she invites Max to summer with her at Ireson’s Landing. But they haven't been in the house ten minutes when they stumble upon summer's first mystery—a mint-condition, antique Spanish mirror that is tremendously rare and valuable. Sarah has never seen it before and she doesn't know how it ended up in the summerhouse, but the sleuthing couple will soon find this looking glass to be more troublesome than anything Lewis Carroll ever invented.

As the zany Kelling clan descends on Ireson's Landing, Sarah and her beau try to uncover the mystery of the Bilbao looking glass—a quest that is disrupted when a vicious next-door neighbor is found hacked to death with a woodshed ax. By summer's end, Sarah and Max will learn that some murders can be solved simply by looking in the mirror.

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 Blaine on November 27, 2019

Book 4 of this series takes us to Sarah Kellings beach house (currently in the midst of foreclosure) and introduces to a whole host of different characters, only Sarah and Max remain as main characters from the authors first three books. I applaud the author for adapting to changing plots with the n......more

Goodreads review by Judy on December 28, 2020

Sarah and Max are on their way to getting engaged, Max is framed for murder and theft, and Sarah is plagued by family and friends of the family. Situation normal, right? Thank goodness the police don't fall for the frame job. Now the happy couple just has to steer through the family shoals.........more

Goodreads review by Julie on April 07, 2019

Sarah is more patient than I would be (or anyone should be) with her maddening, bigoted relatives and family friends. This is a quick and easy read.......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on December 02, 2009

Sarah and Max deal with Sarah's Yacht club friends or rather Alexander's friends who wish to protect her from that Jewish fellow Bittersohn. Instead they decide who would be most suitable for Sarah to marry from among their number to keep her in her proper social milieu. Meanwhile Max's family are h......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on November 20, 2019

Unusual story Humor, murder and class snobbery set in a different time. Loved Sarah and Max. There were lots of twists and turns. I figured out one of the villains...but there were more surprises in store. A bit like an Agatha Christie. Lots of suspects and motives. Then all becomes clear.......more

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