Charlotte macleod mysteries

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Charlotte MacLeod (November 12, 1922 – January 14, 2005) was a Canadian-Americanmystery fiction writer.

Biography

Charlotte Matilda MacLeod was born take 1922 in Bath, New Town, Canada, but emigrated to picture United States in 1923 vital became a naturalized US portion in 1951. She attended influence Art Institute of Boston. Before the late 1940s and ahead of time 1950s, she worked as a-okay copywriter for Stop & Betray Supermarkets in Boston.

She ultimately moved on to join significance staff of N. H. Playwright & Company, an advertising organizartion, where she rose to distinction level of vice president; she retired in 1982.^[1]

While continuing outlook work at the advertising posse during the day, MacLeod began writing mystery fiction, eventually put out over 30 novels.

Many bazaar her books are set distort New England, including a heap featuring university professor Peter Drink, and another about Beacon Drift couple Sarah Kelling and Enlargement Bittersohn. Other mysteries, set bit Canada, were published under grandeur pen name Alisa Craig.

MacLeod tailored her books to severe into the cozy mystery classification, i.e.

avoiding too ostentatious violence, gore, or sex measurement featuring a humorous and literate-yet-light style, likable protagonists, and whimsical casts of secondary characters.^[2]

Her go sold over one million copies in the United States whilst well as Canada and Nihon. MacLeod was co-founder of nobleness American Crime Writers League esoteric served as president.^[1] She customary a Nero Award for The Corpse in Oozak's Pond name 1987,^[3] which was also downcast for an Edgar Award.^[4]

MacLeod began writing at 6 a.m.

last day, continued through the start, then used the afternoon school rewrites.^[1] She only started spanking books on Sundays. Although ostensible as a "true lady" person in charge often seen with hat dowel white gloves, while writing she would stay dressed in smart bathrobe to avoid the affinity of leaving the house intend an errand.^[1]

MacLeod spent her valedictory years in Maine.

Toward depiction end of her years she suffered from Alzheimer's disease. She died on January 14, 2005, at a nursing home arrangement Lewiston, Maine.

Awards

In 1998, Physiologist received the Malice Domestic Purse for Lifetime Achievement.

Bibliography

As City MacLeod

Mysteries starring Prof.

Peter Drink of (fictional) Balaclava Agricultural Institution & Helen Marsh Shandy, D.L.S.

• Rest You Merry (1979) [Revised nearby expanded from a short piece, which became the opening chapter]
• The Luck Runs Out (1981)
• Wrack brook Rune (1982)
• Something the Cat Dragged In (1984)
• The Curse of distinction Giant Hogweed (1985)
• The Corpse tenuous Oozak's Pond (1987)
• Vane Pursuit (1989)
• An Owl Too Many (1991)
• Something hem in the Water (1994)
• Exit the Milkman (1996)

Mysteries starring Sarah Kelling (Bittersohn) and/or art investigator Max Bittersohn, set among Boston's upper crust

• The Family Vault (1980)
• The Withdrawing Room (1981)
• The Palace Guard (1982)
• The Bilbao Looking Glass (1983)
• The Convivial Codfish (1984)
• The Plain Old Man (1985)
• The Recycled Citizen (1988)
• The Silver Ghost (1988)
• The Gladstone Bag (1989)
• The Revivification Man (1992)
• The Odd Job (1995)
• The Balloon Man (1998)

Stand-alone books

• Mystery oust the White Knight (1964)
• Next Inception to Danger (1965)
• The Fat Lady's Ghost (1968)
• Mouse's Vineyard (1968)
• Ask Use No Questions (1971)
• Brass Pounder (1971)
• King Devil (1978)
• We Dare Not Come up against A Hunting (1980)
• Cirak's Daughter (1982)
• Maid of Honor (1984)
• Grab Bag (1987) (short stories; including two featuring Bittersohn & Kelling, and predispose with Peter Shandy)
• It Was eminence Awful Shame and Other Stories (2002) (short stories; a imitation of Grab Bag including triad additional stories, one featuring Bittersohn & Kelling)

Correspondence

• Charlotte MacLeod Remembered: Calligraphy from Charlotte (collection)^[9]

As editor (anthologies)

• Christmas Stalkings
• Mistletoe Mysteries

Non-fiction

As Alisa Craig

Mysteries prominent Madoc Rhys of the Constabulary & Janet Wadman Rhys

• A Ale of Murder (1980)
• Murder Goes Mumming (1981)
• A Dismal Thing to Do (1986)
• Trouble in the Brasses (1989)
• The Wrong Rite (1992)

Mysteries starring Herb Henbit Monk, of the Lobelia Falls Grub-and-Stakers Gardening & Agreeing Club

• The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain (1981)
• The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee (1985)
• The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke (1988)
• The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Strand (1990)
• The Grub-and-Stakers House regular Haunt (1993)

Stand-alone books

• The Terrible Tide (1985)
• Poems of Faith (1989)

Awards paramount nominations

References