Charlotte Macleod

Broschiertes Buch

The Luck Runs Out

Beschreibung

Newlyweds Peter and Helen Shandy are picking out flatware when a pair of gun-toting hooligans bursts into the silversmith's shop, emptying the safe and leaving with Helen as their hostage. Although the police recover Helen quickly, her professor husband is badly shaken by the ordeal. Early the next morning, the college's head of animal husbandry frantically reports another hostage situation in progress. Belinda, the school s beloved sow, has been kidnapped, and only Peter can bring home the bacon.

Autor

Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an international 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781504067690
• ISBN-10: 150406769X
• Artikelnr.: 62591200