Charlotte MacLeod

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A New England college hosts a counterfeiting scrooge, an angelic chorister falls to earth, a tight-fisted patriarch realizes his days are numbered, and a politician presents his wife with an explosive gift. In Christmas Stalkings, bestselling mystery author Charlotte

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For years, Professor Peter Shandy has been pressured to decorate his campus home for the college's fund-raising event. Finally, unable to take it anymore, he buries his small house in an avalanche of tacky decorations, locks the switches to "on," and leaves. Coming back to face his colleagues, he finds the Chairperson dead in his living room, and sets to work to prove to the local police that her death was no accident ...

"When amateur sleuth Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn join the rest of the Kelling clan to plan a charity auction, the Kellings find themselves at the center of a bizarre murder plot." --

On an island of misfit artists, it's Aunt Emma's turn to play detective Though a few years past sixty, Sarah Kelling's Aunt Emma is as vigorous as a girl of twenty-two. She sings, she dances, and when the local fire department needs a fundraising boost, she's happy to jump out a window for charity. This summer, she decamps to Maine, to beat the heat at an island retreat for artists and great thinkers. There are writers, painters, a psychic, and a...

At a wedding in Boston, sleuth Max Bittersohn faces several mysteries. A hot air balloon crashes into the tent, leaving a corpse, an attempt is made to steal a Rolls Royce and among the wedding gifts is the bride's stolen necklace.

When she gets involved in her Aunt Emma's production of "The Sorcerer" by Gilbert and Sullivan, Sarah Kelling Bittersohn doesn't expect it to lead to art theft and murder.

Sarah Kelling unwittingly opens her lovely Beacon Hill home to more than an eccentric collection of boarders when financial pressures force her to look for alternatives.

When her cat brings her a clue which leads her to suspect that her aged boarder, Professor Ungley, has been murdered, Martha Lomax finds herself involved in nearby Balaclava College's struggle to survive.

In Britain, two American professors help with a search for a missing griffin, a plant that threatens to overrun the countryside.

At Balaclava Agricultural College, a kidnapping and pig-napping are followed by murder Newlyweds Peter and Helen Shandy are picking out flatware when a pair of gun-toting hooligans burst into the silversmith?s shop, empty the safe, and leave with Helen as their hostage. Although the police recover Helen quickly, her professor husband is badly shaken by the ordeal. Early the next morning, the college?s head of animal husbandry frantically reports another...