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The Palace Guard (Sarah Kelling/ Max Bittersohn mystery)
The Palace Guard - Sarah Kelling/ Max Bittersohn mystery Author:Charlotte MacLeod Sarah Knows she shouldn't be here. The Kellings never did get invited back after that unfortunate incident when Madam Wilkins first opened her palatial museum to Boston's most critically outspoken Brahmins. But things have been quiet at Sarah's elegant Beacond Hill boardinghouse lately. Nobody's been murdered in months. Lodger Max Bittersohn has... more » free passes to today's concert and he's one man she finds hard to turn down. So here stand Sarah and Max on the palace's second floor balcony admiring the flower-filled courtyard below. Suddenly, a peacock screams. A dark something falls past them from the floor above. Serenity turns to pandemonium as the oldest guard sprawls dead among the hyacinths. This is a case ready made for Bittersohn, a professional tracker of art thieves and forgers. "Charlotte MacLeod's Crime Club mysteries are like a guilty bowl of ice cream on a summer porch. Absolutely delicious (People)"« less