The Palace Guard, Charlotte MacLeod
The Palace Guard, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Palace Guard

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2021


Synopsis

A museum robbery leaves a guard dead, and two Boston sleuths investigate: "If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you" (Margaret Maron).

It has only been a few months since Sarah Kelling's elderly husband passed away, and she is struggling to adapt to life as a penniless young widow. To make ends meet, she converts her stately Boston home into a boardinghouse, a decision that brings something even better than money: the company of art-fraud investigator Max Bittersohn. The budding couple is standing on a balcony, recovering from a second-rate concert at a third-rate museum, when something plummets past them. The museum has been robbed, and a guard has fallen to his death. Dozens of priceless paintings have been stolen and replaced with forgeries, and to recover these masterworks will mean tearing the lid off the quiet life of the Boston upper crust. But it is a chance Sarah and Max must take, lest they join the guard on his long trip down.

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 24, 2019

Book Three of this series brings us a few changes, and they are wonderful as usual! Charlotte MacLeod has been compared to Agatha Christie and for good reasons. Well paced books, interesting and diverse characters and wonderful plots with solutions to the mysteries being held until the very end. Her......more

Goodreads review by Francis on April 02, 2015

A few hours of gentle and amusing sleuthing not unlike watching a late night movie with some stylishly dressed actors, a little witty dialogue and an actress with a flirty wink. Light but entertaining.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on February 22, 2021

This book introduces Theonia's romance. Brooks Kelling, another of Sarah's numerous relatives, is filling in for a guard at the Madam's Palace, when Sarah and Max, on a date to a concert, when a guard falls off the balcony. Max begins to investigate and Sarah insists on accompanying him during some......more

Goodreads review by Jane (Avid reader) on January 16, 2020

This is the third Max and Sarah book and more murder, mayhem and detecting ensue. In this case a guard at an art museum dies falling off the roof and there are many page turning twists before reaching a satisfying reveal. Light and enjoyable cosy mystery read......more