The Gladstone Bag, Charlotte MacLeod
The Gladstone Bag, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Gladstone Bag

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2021


Synopsis

Family ties draw Boston's art sleuths into an island murder mystery in this "unalloyed pleasure" from the internationally bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).

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 historian, and their company promises to be great fun—until a few of them go treasure-crazy. Sensible people have long dismissed rumors of the Pocapuk Island treasure as myth, but artists are seldom sensible. When their rampant digging stirs up buried trouble, it leads to theft, drugging, and a murder. And although Sarah and her husband Max give investigative advice by phone, it's up to Aunt Emma to save the islanders from themselves.

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 PR on October 22, 2024

What horrible fun! Charlotte Macleod never ceases to puzzle and amaze! It would be so great to have endless funds to go and do whatever one pleased...so many of her characters have Just so much money...they never have to worry... So many of her sundry extra characters have just about nothing or do nef......more

Goodreads review by Alison on March 21, 2023

Aunt Emma Kelling is happy to take over for an ailing, aging friend when the latter asks her to take her place on the private island of Pocapuk, Maine, where the friend had long hosted summer visitors, usually artists in need of a place to work in peace. This time, however, the invited guests are un......more

Goodreads review by Stef on April 01, 2022

Mad-cap adventures of an elderly Trixie Belden...which was sort of funnish but often crossed the line over into too silly (and unnecessarily so). I got very sick of Bubble's lisp for example, then there is also a psychic who has actual psychic powers, an illustrator with an inexplicable obsession wi......more

Goodreads review by moxieBK on December 01, 2020

The Gladstone Bag (#9) — Charlotte MacLeod (26 chapters) Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2020 In this ninth book in the series, Max is laid up with a broken foot and Sarah is playing nurse to him. Aunt Emma however, is off on an island when murder strikes and other shenanigans transpire. This all leads to a story wh......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 25, 2018

Funny how memory works. I've read this book, several times, years ago, and would have sworn that Sarah Kelling Bittersohn joined her Aunt Emma in this caper involving stolen jewels. Not so: Sarah, and her husband, art detective Max, only appear on the phone, talking Emma through her problems on a re......more