Grub-And-Stakers Series by Charlotte MacLeod (Book 1-5)
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Overview: Charlotte MacLeod, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, is the multi-award-winning author of over thirty acclaimed novels. Her series featuring detective Professor Peter Shandy, America’s homegrown Hercule Poirot, delivers "generous dollops of…warmth, wit, and whimsy" (San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). But fully a dozen novels star her popular husband-and-wife team of Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn. And her native Canada provides a backdrop for the amusing Grub-and-Stakers cozies written under the pseudonym Alisa Craig. A cofounder and past president of the American Crime Writers League, she has also edited the bestselling anthologies Mistletoe Mysteries and Christmas Stalkings.
Genre: Mystery
1. The Grub and Stakers Move A Mountain (1981)
To prevent Lobelia Fall from being turned into a subdivision, a citizen turns to cold-blooded murder
Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with a bow and arrow. Practicing the craft, freelance secretary Dittany Henbit is strolling through the woods with her bow at her side when she meets a surveyor making surveys where he shouldn’t. Dittany is giving him what-for when an arrow goes whizzing above her head. It is sharp enough to kill, and was not fired by accident, but Dittany wasn’t the target. She and the surveyor find Mr. Architrave, the head of the water department, not far away – lying dead beneath the trees that he loved so much.
Progress is coming to Lobelia Falls, and one resident will do anything to stop it. But in a town where every child can shoot, how can Dittany discover who drew the killer bow?
2. The Grub and Stakers Quilt A Bee (1985)
Before Lobelia Falls can have a museum, the curator’s killer must be caught
The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers, but when water department supervisor John Architrave is found murdered in the woods, club member Dittany Henbit turns to solving mysteries. After Architrave’s will reveals that he bequeathed his ramshackle old house to the Grub-and-Stakers, with instructions for it to be turned into a museum, Dittany resigns herself to weeks of cleaning out the mansion and sorting through donated town "artifacts." The task turns interesting, however, the minute bodies start falling from the sky.
The new curator is airing out the house’s attic when he takes his tumble off the roof. So unlikely is it that he would fall out the tiny attic window, that Dittany has no choice but to attempt to add one captured killer to the young museum’s permanent collection.
3. The Grub and Stakers Pinch A Poke (1988)
CATCH A FALLING STAR
Lobelia Falls was abuzz about the Scottsbeck drama competition. The Grub-and-Stake Gardening and Roving Club intended to win it with a dramatization of "The Shooting Of Dan McGrew". The house lights went down, the footlights went up…and someone tried to make opening night the leading man’s final curtain!
To keep the villain from stealing the show, Dittany Monk quickly switched from her onstage part as the "tiny tot" to her role as wily sleuth. Now the hunt was on for a would-be murderer with a taste for melodrama.
4. The Grub and Stakers Spin A Yarn (1990)
The latest from Charlotte McLeod, writing as Craig ( The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain ), is a kitsch whodunit that overflows with witticisms, puns and mistaken identities; steady tongue-in-cheek narration keeps it from becoming cloying. Casting the members of the Lobelia Falls Grub-and-Stakers Gardening and Roving Club, the drama begins in Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy’s Yarnery, where an executive at the local mincemeat factory is murdered. Popular novelist Osbert Monk joins in the police investigation. The ensuing shenanigans are hilarious and cleverly conceived–at one point the criminals mistakenly abduct Osbert’s aunt Arethusa instead of the murder victim’s daughter, Matilda McCorquindale; to outsmart them, Osbert decides that Matilda should attend her father’s funeral and pretend to be Arethusa pretending to be Matilda. McLeod threads the suspense surely, and although the quirky character names grow cumbersome, she keeps her story energetic and merry.
5. The Grub and Stakers House A Haunt (1993)
The fourth cozy mystery in this disarming, whimsical series follows the members of the zany garden club of Lobelia Falls as they avenge an apparition by attempting to solve a 100-year-old murder. Their outrageous adventures include a treasure hunt which is likely to start a modern-day gold rush.
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