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Bezig met laden... The Odd Job (1995)door Charlotte MacLeod
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Sarah Kelling Bittersohn is not pleased when her cousin Percy and his wife Anne ask her to accompany them to a luncheon at the home of Percy’s clients, Elwyn Fleesom Turbot and his wife Lala. She is even less pleased when Turbot turns out to be the new head of the board of directors of the Wilkins Museum, particularly when he also turns out to be a bully who thinks he can browbeat Sarah into submission. However, when long-time employee of the Wilkins, Dolores Tawne, is murdered, Sarah begins to realize that her fit of pique with the Turbots is just the beginning of her troubles with the Turbots…. This eleventh novel in the Sarah Kelling series harks back to the third book, “The Palace Guard,” in which various shenanigans take place at the Wilkins Museum, and Sarah and Max are in the thick of it. There are nicely done digressions back to 1960s-era “happenings” in Boston here, complete with a mysterious group of women who sort of slither in and out of focus throughout, and, of course, some of Sarah’s many relatives put in their eccentric appearances here and there. Max is off in Argentina, though, and I missed his presence in this book. Overall, this is another charming piece of fiction with which to while away an afternoon; recommended! ( ) Booklist Review: The latest in MacLeod's series of Sarah and Max Kelling mysteries more than meets the standards of her earlier works, filled as ever with touches of comedy, eccentric characters, and mild suspense, all in a neatly depicted Bostonian setting. Left on her own, while her art-detective spouse Max Kelling is in Argentina on a job, Sarah holds down the office, nearly gets herself killed, secures child care for her son (whose nurse is ill), probates an estate, and solves the murder of the woman who named Sarah her executor. Sarah is impressively competent, but she is aided by her houseman/butler Charles and a local police detective, both of whom are wise to the adventures that beset the Kelling family. MacLeod's tendency to restate the case, via Sarah updating relatives and police professionals, results in some unnecessary repetitions, but readers who like to solve the mystery before novel's end may find these summations desirable. ((Reviewed May 15, 1995)) -- Denise Perry Donavin geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Sarah Kelling (11) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)DuMont's Kriminal-Bibliothek (1104)
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 missing paintings has proven trickier. Years later, the collection's prized Titian is still lost, and the new director, loudmouthed cattle baron Elwyn Fleesom Turbot, is getting impatient. And things get even more troublesome when members of his staff begin to die. It starts when Dolores Tawne, the elderly, bossy museum administrator, is stabbed through the base of her skull with an antique hatpin. Inside the dead woman's safe deposit box Sarah finds clues to a conspiracy that stretches back decades and a way to stop the murders that are still to come. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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