Vane Pursuit, Charlotte MacLeod
Vane Pursuit, Charlotte MacLeod
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Vane Pursuit

Author: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrator: Charlotte MacLeod

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021

Synopsis

Antique weather vanes point Peter and Helen Shandy toward a gang of thieves in a mystery that's "the ultimate escapism . . . utterly hilarious" (Publishers Weekly).

The weather vanes of the famous craftsman Praxiteles Lumpkin are one of the great cultural treasures of rural Massachusetts. Helen Shandy, librarian at Balaclava Agricultural College, is roaming the countryside, camera in hand, capturing images of these lovely copper sculptures, trying to give them the attention they deserve. But each time she takes a picture, the featured vane vanishes. Could there be a gang of breezy-minded burglars on her tail? The night after Helen photographs the vane atop the famous Lumpkin soap works, the building burns to the ground. With the help of her husband, Peter, she tries to track the thieves-turned-arsonists. But when the things take a dangerous turn, Helen doesn't need a weather vane to see that a deadly wind is blowing.

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 August 29, 2023

Review to follow - antique weather vanes, theft, and murder......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on February 05, 2017

Librarian Helen Shandy, rather than her husband Peter, proves the hero of Vane Pursuit, the seventh entry in this irresistible series. Helen and her beautiful, zaftig friend, Iduna Stott, head off to Maine to photograph one of the few remaining weather vanes crafted by a long-dead primitive folk art......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on March 08, 2016

Charlotte’s cerebral dialogue knocked “the cozy mystery” out of the park, stretched to its best possible incarnations. Re-circulated characters chat in a way that proves we know them well. There was no end to her mind-boggling creativity! Antique weathervanes, which Helen is documenting and knows to......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 07, 2025

In Vane Pursuit, Helen Shandy is working on a project to photograph and document a number of antique weather vanes made by a local artisan. She's getting a great deal accomplished when it suddenly appears that the weather vanes are disappearing along with the buildings they are perched upon. When th......more

Goodreads review by Bev on June 27, 2011

Vane Pursuit by Charlotte MacLeod is one of my loosely contrued academic mysteries. MacLeod has two sets of series characters: Professor Peter Shandy & his lovely librarian wife Helen and Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn. Both series are very literate and very funny and feature an eccentric cast of su......more

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