The GrubandStakers Spin a Yarn, Charlotte MacLeod
The GrubandStakers Spin a Yarn, Charlotte MacLeod
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The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2021


Synopsis

A murder in a yarn store leads to some wild and woolly adventures in this "energetic and merry" mystery (Publishers Weekly).

When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town races to Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy's Yarnery to begin work on a complete wardrobe of hats, booties, and tiny sweaters. One customer, however, has even more urgent business: the man with the gunshot wounds in his back. The victim stumbles out of a bullet-ridden car, dripping blood all over the freshly cleaned sidewalk, and dies with a peculiar phrase on his lips: "The raveled sleeve!" Before Miss Jane can offer advice on how to rescue an unraveling sweater, her unfortunate customer expires. To ensure her twins can be raised in a safe hometown, Dittany will have to get the yarn-store murder sewn up.

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 Jenn on May 15, 2017

The library copy I read of this probably should've been weeded out of the collection a long time ago, so half the time I was reading this I was worried it was about to fall apart, which wasn't helpful. Ditany and Osbert are still probably my second favorite of MacLeod's sleuthing couples, but this o......more

Goodreads review by Susan on July 11, 2017

Craig (also known as Charlotte MacLeod) has a vivid imagination, which veers toward farce when the vice president of a nearby mincemeat factory is shot on the usually quiet streets of Lobelia Falls. His wife--Mother Matilda herself!--hires western writer and part-time sheriff's deputy Osbert Monk to......more

Goodreads review by Peter on December 01, 2016

A humorous cozy murder novel by Charlotte Macleod writing as Alisa Craig. This involves a rural Canadian town and the principals are a couple therein. He is a writer of western novels who helps out the local police chief. This involves the murder of a vice president at a nearby mincemeat plant. A fu......more

Goodreads review by Virginia on August 30, 2020

In many ways this is a bookish example of a screwball comedy. Plastic flamingoes, vice-president nutmeg and knitted sheep are just a few of the delights that make this an unusually fun read from a writer who never disappoints.......more

Goodreads review by Jean Strande on July 07, 2022

I love all Charlotte Macleod books.......more