A Pint of Murder, Charlotte MacLeod
A Pint of Murder, Charlotte MacLeod
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A Pint of Murder

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2021


Synopsis

In rural Canada, a woman dies after eating from a jar of tainted green beans—and a Mountie must preserve the evidence.

In a quiet small town in New Brunswick, old Agatha Treadway makes one last cranky complaint to her niece before dying on her kitchen floor. The cause seems to be a jar of contaminated string beans, which sat on Agatha's basement shelf for years before becoming her final meal. The town doctor calls it a tragic accident—and a warning to all who can their own vegetables—but Agatha's neighbor, the intrepid Janet Wadman, knows better. Agatha was an expert canner, which means the beans must have been placed there by someone else. This was murder.

Before Janet can share her theory with the town doctor, he, too, meets an untimely death. To oversee the investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police send Madoc Rhys, a wholly unusual Mountie who poses as Janet's relative while he searches for the killer. But Madoc soon finds himself falling for his partner in detection, and before he can make his feelings known, the pair will have to contend with a secret far more deadly than botulism.


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 Charles on March 09, 2020

Review of Kindle edition Publication date: October 2, 2012 Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Language: English ASIN: B0099IHPBG Amazon.com Sales Rank: 43151 318 pages Published under the pen name Alisa Craig, this novel lacks the wit and liveliness of MacCleod's Peter Shandy mysteries. Too many page......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on December 27, 2016

I adored the late Charlotte MacLeod’s cozy mystery series featuring Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn and all of Sarah’s eccentric extended family — enough to have read every single book in the series and been sorry to see it end! Thanks to my Great Escape sisters, I launched into MacLeod’s Peter Sha......more

Goodreads review by Susan on April 02, 2013

I am so glad Charlotte MacLeod's books are finally out in ebooks. I have been keeping an eye out and finally decided to check again after being disappointed so often. Yay! I had not read this series before but am very pleased with it - it is good fun. Janet is suffering from a bruised heart and a rup......more

Goodreads review by Jody on August 09, 2015

Alisa Craig is also known as Charlotte MacLeod. I've read the Peter Shandy and Kelling/Bittershon series by Charlotte MacLeod and have loved her characters and wit. I felt A Pint of Murder was written by a different person...characters were flat and the plot was sub-par.......more