Order of Charlotte MacLeod Books

Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was a Canadian-born American mystery novelist, renowned for her Professor Peter Shandy series. She also created the Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn series, along with the Madoc Rhys and Grub-And-Stakers series under the pseudonym Alisa Craig. Born in New Brunswick, her family relocated to the United States shortly thereafter. MacLeod studied at the Art Institute of Boston and began her career as a copywriter while writing fiction. Her work is characterized by a light tone and features charming, quirky characters. She died in 2005 in a nursing home due to Alzheimer’s disease. MacLeod's writing career commenced in 1964 with the novel Mystery of the White Knight, and her last novel was The Balloon Man, part of the Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn series, published in 1998. Her final published work was the short story collection It Was an Awful Shame and Other Stories, which included additional content from her earlier collection Grab Bag. Below is a list of Charlotte MacLeod’s books in the order of their original publication.