The Odd Job, Charlotte MacLeod
The Odd Job, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Odd Job

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2021


Synopsis

A museum murder puts Boston's married art sleuths to work: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea" (Chicago Tribune).

When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn—the savviest art detectives of the Boston upper crust. Nabbing the crooks was easy, but finding the missing paintings has proven trickier. Years later, the collection's prized Titian is still lost, and the new director, loudmouthed cattle baron Elwyn Fleesom Turbot, is getting impatient. And things get even more troublesome when members of his staff begin to die. It starts when Dolores Tawne, the elderly, bossy museum administrator, is stabbed through the base of her skull with an antique hatpin. Inside the dead woman's safe deposit box Sarah finds clues to a conspiracy that stretches back decades and a way to stop the murders that are still to come.

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 Renee on April 24, 2010

Charlotte MacLeod had been a well-established cozy author in the '90s, when I got this Advance. It's sad to learn, now, that she only published two more books before falling victim to Alzheimer's and dying in 2005. Given that she published nearly 40 books and lived to the age of 83, though, I probab......more

Goodreads review by Denise on December 31, 2019

A museum administrator/talented art forger is found stabbed with an antique hairpin. Sarah and Max have been investigating the theft of art from the museum. How are the crimes connected?......more

Goodreads review by Linda on January 31, 2018

The 11th in the series starring Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn finds Sarah all on her own. With Max off in Argentina chasing missing artwork, her son staying at a beach house with relatives, and the rest of the Bittersohn agency personnel out of town, Sarah has been left to hold everything togethe......more

Goodreads review by PR on October 25, 2024

Sad tale of death and destruction. Widows??? Killing folks? Museum staff murdered and accused? OMG probably would not have mourned the character first murdered in this obe, though I did feel a twinge of guilt since we'd met her before... Ah, well. I try not to kook to closely at Murder Mysteries and w......more

Goodreads review by Alison on April 09, 2023

Sarah Kelling Bittersohn is not pleased when her cousin Percy and his wife Anne ask her to accompany them to a luncheon at the home of Percy’s clients, Elwyn Fleesom Turbot and his wife Lala. She is even less pleased when Turbot turns out to be the new head of the board of directors of the Wilkins M......more