Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn mysteries

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An aging stripper's fresh corpse turns up in an old family tomb at Boston Common in this "first-rate suspense whodunit" ( The Cincinnati Post ). Like many old New England families, the Kellings live to die. Although their family vault is spacious and comfortable, it will not do for Sarah Kelling's Great-Uncle Frederick. In his will, he demands to be buried inside the ancient family tomb at Boston Common, which hasn't admitted a new member...

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It's only been a few months since Sarah Kelling's elderly husband passed away, and she's struggling to adapt to life as a penniless young widow. To make ends meet, she converts her stately Boston home into a boardinghouse, a decision that brings something even better than money: the company of art-fraud investigator Max Bittersohn. The budding couple is standing on a balcony, recovering from a second-rate concert at a third-rate museum, when something...

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Summary: Max Bitterson and Sarah Kelling seek the missing Order of the Convivial Codfish, a sterling silver pendant that disappeared during a ceremonial dinner from the neck of the newly appointed Exalted Chowderhead.

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When amateur sleuth Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn join the rest of the Kelling clan to plan a charity auction, the Kellings find themselves at the center of a bizarre murder plot.

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Family ties draw Boston's art sleuths into an island murder mystery in this "unalloyed pleasure" from the international 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...

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A museum murder puts Boston's married art sleuths to work: "The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod's cup of tea" ( Chicago Tribune ). When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn—the savviest art detectives of the Boston upper crust. Nabbing the crooks was easy, but finding the...