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The Palace Guard (1981)

di Charlotte MacLeod

Serie: Sarah Kelling (3)

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A museum robbery leaves a guard dead, and two Boston sleuths investigate: "If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you" (Margaret Maron).   It has only been a few months since Sarah Kelling's elderly husband passed away, and she is 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 plummets past them. The museum has been robbed, and a guard has fallen to his death.   Dozens of priceless paintings have been stolen and replaced with forgeries, and to recover these masterworks will mean tearing the lid off the quiet life of the Boston upper crust. But it is a chance Sarah and Max must take, lest they join the guard on his long trip down.… (altro)
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Sara has now turned her home into a Boarding House to pay off the mortgage debts that she has inherited and Max is one of her tenants in a basement apartment. He takes her to a museum as a treat (date?) where they happen to see an elderly guard falling over a railing to the courtyard below. This is the beginning of an investigation for fake art. Lots of interesting, beatnikie characters come into play plus the relatives and tenants of Sara’s.

I liked this book better than Family Vault. Max is obviously sweet on Sara and there’s plenty of funny situations and hijinks to make it a quick and amusing read. It is dated however. ( )
  Kathy89 | Jan 21, 2024 |
As a treat. Max Bittersohn takes Sarah Kelling to the Madam’s Museum, a venerable institution of artwork left to the city by Mrs. Wilkins, known as “the Madam” after a witticism of one of Sarah’s numerous blue-blood ancestors. Their visit is marred, however, by the sudden death of one of the guards, who apparently leaned too far over a guardrail and plunged to his death a few stories below. That guard had a particular affinity for one of the paintings in his section, and he had been loudly complaining that the painting had “changed” in the days before his death, which leads Max and Sarah to wonder if the death was, indeed, accidental…. In the third novel of this series, we are given a look into Max’s world as opposed to Sarah’s; that is, the world of art, art theft and international intrigue. We are also introduced to some more of Sarah’s innumerable relatives, a boisterous and enigmatic Russian Countess, and several of Boston’s more celebrated philanthropists. This being a mystery series, it is not a surprise to find some of those characters are not as they seem, and the fun lies in figuring out who is more blatantly duplicitous amongst the group! Recommended, but I do think that this is a series where one should begin with the first novel (“The Family Vault”) and carry on from there. ( )
  thefirstalicat | Feb 16, 2023 |
The body of a security guard being pushed off the third floor balcony of Madam Wilkin’s Palazzo is the beginning of a mystery with a couple of murders and a mishmash collection of art with questionable provenance.

Sarah Kelling, of the Boston Kellings and landlady of an elegant Beacon Hill boarding house, acts as assistant to Max Bittersohn, art expert and boarder, in investigating the various aspects of the case. This is not their first case and won’t be their last.

Among the suspects is a Countess who makes her money forging antique icons, some of the most inept security guards and staff, and one of the Kelling cousins. Screaming peacocks lend an unusual touch, along with the impresario who provides the musical talent for the museum concerts, knows quite a bit about the museum and staff. The murder takes place during one of the concerts so there are plenty of witnesses/suspects…maybe.

It is a cozy read with humour, a touch of romance and some good twists and turns. ( )
  ChazziFrazz | Jan 16, 2022 |
cozy-mystery, Boston, murder-investigation, fun, vintage

Sarah and Max come up right in the middle of things once again! Sarah is surrounded by relatives and also her boarders as murder intrudes once again, but romance is finally in the air for Sarah and Max as well as cousin Brooks Kelling and an interesting boarder. I love this vintage series!
Andi Arndt is great as narrator! ( )
  jetangen4571 | Sep 3, 2018 |
Substance: Delightful romantic-mystery romp through high-ish society. Hasthe flavor of an earlier decade except for the lightly risqué episodes ( such as 1960s romantic movies). Reasonably decent mystery, fair clues.
Style: Light humor.
Will definitely look for more of MacLeod's work. ( )
  librisissimo | Nov 25, 2011 |
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[Max about Brooks] Your cousin's a little bit of a screwball in some ways, if you don't mind my saying so --
[Sarah] Why should I? Show me a Kelling who isn't.
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Like Sarah, Mrs. Sorpende had left her coat in the cloakroom as the vast skylights provided an effect of solar heating inside the palazzo. She had on her one and only black daytime dress, a garment that would have been sedate enough if it hadn't happened to fit so divinely. At throat and ears were pearls so discreet as to seem genuine. On her intricately dressed hair perched a whimsy of creamy satin and veiling that would have driven Anatole of Paris to screaming frenzy. On her hands were gloves of a dazzling whiteness. About her wafted a subtle hint of roses. She was, in a word, sensational. (chapter 12)
The two tenants [of the Fenway Studios] described in this story are, of course, imaginary. So is the Madam's palazzo, as nobody in real life was ever foolish enough to try to outshine the incomparable Mrs. Jack. There isn't even a Tulip Street on the Hill. Sarah Kelling, her boarders, her friends, and her foes have nowhere to exist except in the author's imagination. No resemblance to any actual person or event is intended, and any coincidence would be inadvertent. (paragraph 3 from the author's statement on the copyright page)
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A museum robbery leaves a guard dead, and two Boston sleuths investigate: "If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you" (Margaret Maron).   It has only been a few months since Sarah Kelling's elderly husband passed away, and she is 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 plummets past them. The museum has been robbed, and a guard has fallen to his death.   Dozens of priceless paintings have been stolen and replaced with forgeries, and to recover these masterworks will mean tearing the lid off the quiet life of the Boston upper crust. But it is a chance Sarah and Max must take, lest they join the guard on his long trip down.

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