The GrubandStakers Quilt a Bee, Charlotte MacLeod
The GrubandStakers Quilt a Bee, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 6 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2021


Synopsis

When the seeds of a mystery are planted, gardening club member Dittany Henbit digs up clues in the cozy series from the internationally bestselling author.

The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers, but when water department supervisor John Architrave is found murdered in the woods, club member Dittany Henbit turns to solving mysteries. After Architrave's will reveals that he bequeathed his ramshackle old house to the Grub-and-Stakers, with instructions for it to be turned into a museum, Dittany resigns herself to weeks of cleaning out the mansion and sorting through donated town "artifacts." The task turns interesting, however, the minute bodies start falling from the sky. The new curator is airing out the house's attic when he takes his tumble off the roof. So unlikely is it that he would fall out the tiny attic window, that Dittany has no choice but to attempt to add one captured killer to the young museum's permanent collection.

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 Virginia on July 18, 2020

Even if the wonderful characters and delightful plots don't entertain you, books by Charlotte Macleod (or Alisa Craig) are worth reading because of her marvelous vocabulary and outrageous names for characters.......more

Goodreads review by Pat on June 04, 2022

While this series doesn't engage me as well as her other series, it was still a fun read. Her characters are a bit over the top in The Grub-And-Stakers, but then that is part of Charlotte's charm. She also manages to fit in the most obscure words, so be prepared with a dictionary or Google.......more

Goodreads review by Dogsandbooks on December 16, 2017

Pretty good, light and funny. Dpl e book via total boox......more

Goodreads review by Kate on June 20, 2021

Fun! The Grubs-and-Stakers mysteries are much the silliest of Charlotte McLeod's various series but are still quite fun. I hope you enjoy them.......more

Goodreads review by Denise on December 31, 2019

This 179 page quick read features the author's goofy characters and impressive wordplay in a murder at a new museum and a mysterious clue to a treasure.......more