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A couple finds an antique mirror that isnt broken, but still brings bad luck-MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate, and charming mystery (Publishers Weekly).According to Max Bittersohn, he and Sarah Kelling have witnessed enough murder and unhappiness, so its high time they got married. And though Sarah hasnt yet agreed to such drastic measures, she invites Max to summer with her at Iresons Landing. But they havent been in the house ten minutes when they stumble upon summers first mystery-a mint-condition, antique Spanish mirror that is tremendously rare and valuable. Sarah has never seen it before and she doesnt know how it ended up in the summerhouse, but the sleuthing couple will soon find this looking glass to be more troublesome than anything Lewis Carroll ever invented.As the zany Kelling clan descends on Iresons Landing, Sarah and her beau try to uncover the mystery of the Bilbao looking glass-a quest that is disrupted when a vicious next-door neighbor is found hacked to death with a woodshed ax. By summers end, Sarah and Max will learn that some murders can be solved simply by looking in the mirror.About author(s):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 childrens 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.
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