Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005)
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Charlotte MacLeod was born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada on November 12, 1922. She immigrated to the United States in 1923 and became a naturalized citizen in 1951. She attended the School of Practical Art, now the Art Institute of Boston. She was a staff artist and copywriter at Stop and Shop mehr anzeigen supermarkets from 1945 to 1952. She also worked at N.H. Miller & Co. advertising firm from 1952 to 1982 starting as a copy chief and ending up as a Vice President. She wrote two series under her own name, a Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery series and the Peter Shandy Mystery series. She also wrote two series under the pseudonym Alisa Craig, the Madoc and Janet Rhys Mystery series and the Grub-and-Stakers series. She also wrote Had She But Known: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart and a dozen juvenile books. She won five American Mystery awards and a Nero Wolfe award. She edited the anthologies Mistletoe Mysteries and Christmas Stalkings. She is the co-founder and past president of the American Crime Writers League. She died on January 14, 2005 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Charlotte MacLeod
Tödliche Weihnachten - DuMonts Digitale Kriminal-Bibliothek: Ein mörderisches Adventspaket (1991) — Herausgeber — 197 Exemplare
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond/Vane Pursuit/An Owl Too Many/Something in the Water/Exit the Milkman (2002) 4 Exemplare
Mouse's Vineyard 2 Exemplare
More Like Martine 2 Exemplare
Rest You Merry/The Bilbao Looking Glass 1 Exemplar
Mystery of the White Knight 1 Exemplar
"... freu dich des Lebens" 1 Exemplar
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (Peter Shandy #6 1 Exemplar
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Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers (1989) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Mitwirkender — 16 Exemplare
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Murder's Out of Tune | The Curse of the Giant Hogweed | A Sense of Loyalty (1985) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
The Luck Runs Out | The Lord Mayor of Death | Murder Begets Murder — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Death in a Cold Climate | The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain | Passing Strange (1981) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
The Long Journey Home | Someone At The Door | The Grub-And-Stakers Quilt A Bee (1985) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- MacLeod, Charlotte
- Andere Namen
- Craig, Alisa
- Geburtstag
- 1922-11-12
- Todestag
- 2005-01-14
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- New Brunswick, Kanada
- Sterbeort
- Lewiston, Maine, USA
- Wohnorte
- Bath, New Brunswick, Canada
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Maine, USA - Ausbildung
- Art Institute of Boston
- Berufe
- Krimiautorin
- Organisationen
- Crime Writers' League
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement (1998)
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award (1992) - Kurzbiographie
- Charlotte MacLeod, geboren in New Brunswick, Kanada, und naturalisierte Bürgerin der USA, iwar die vielfach preisgekrönte Autorin von mehr als dreißig Romanen. Ihre Reihen schildern den Detektiv Professor Peter Shandy, Amerikas Antwort auf Hercule Poirot, beinhalten "große Portionen von Wärme, Witz und Rätseln" (San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). Ein volles Dutzend von Romanen präsentiert ihr Ermittlerpaar Sarah Kelling und Max Bittersohn. Und ihr heimatliches Kanada bietet den Hintergrund für die amüsanten Grub-and-Stakers-Romane, geschrieben unter dem Pseudonym Alisa Craig. Als Mitbegründerin und ehemalige Präsidentin der American Crime Writers League gab sie auch die sehr erfolgreichen Anthologien Mistletoe Mysteries und Christmas Stalkings heraus.
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Didn't get very far with this. Every time the narrator pronounced Rhys as 'Riss' it made me want to scream. Fortunately I had not paid anything - it was included in Audible membership.
Didn't get very far with this. Every time the narrator pronounced Rhys as 'Riss' it made me want to scream. Fortunately I had not paid anything - it was included in Audible membership.
Sara has now turned her home into a Boarding House to pay off the mortgage debts that she has inherited and Max is one of her tenants in a basement apartment. He takes her to a museum as a treat (date?) where they happen to see an elderly guard falling over a railing to the courtyard below. This is the beginning of an investigation for fake art. Lots of interesting, beatnikie characters come into play plus the relatives and tenants of Sara’s.
I liked this book better than Family Vault. Max is obviously sweet on Sara and there’s plenty of funny situations and hijinks to make it a quick and amusing read. It is dated however.… (mehr)
I liked this book better than Family Vault. Max is obviously sweet on Sara and there’s plenty of funny situations and hijinks to make it a quick and amusing read. It is dated however.… (mehr)
The family vault is opened for the burial of an uncle and there's a mystery brick wall inside. They discover a woman's skeleton who was a famous stripper in the 1950s. Sarah's husband is very upset and after the funeral they decide to go to their beach house with his mother, who lives with them, and is blind and deaf. The following morning Sarah's husband and mother-in-law go for a drive and lose control of the car and go off the cliff and are killed. Sarah believes the car was tampered with and then strange things start happening around the house. With the help of an insurance investigator, Sarah discovered what happened and how the deaths are linked together.… (mehr)
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