(1987) Vane Pursuit (1989) An Owl Too Many (1991) Something in the Water (1994) Exit the Milkman (1996) Mysteries starring Sarah Kelling (Bittersohn) and/or art investigator Max Bittersohn, set among Boston's upper crust The Family Vault (1980) The Withdrawing Room (1981) The Palace Guard (1982) The Bilbao Looking Glass (1983) The Convivial Codfish (1984) The Plain Old Man (1985) The Recycled Citizen (1988) The Silver Ghost (1988) The Gladstone Bag (1989) The Resurrection Man (1992) The Odd Job (1995) The Balloon Man (1998) Stand-alone books Mystery of the White Knight (1964) Next Door to Danger (1965) The Fat Lady's Ghost (1968) Mouse's Vineyard (1968) Ask Me No Questions (1971) Brass Pounder (1971) King Devil (1978) We Dare Not Go A Hunting (1980) Cirak's Daughter (1982) Maid of Honor (1984) Grab Bag (1987) (short stories; including two featuring Bittersohn & Kelling, and one with Peter Shandy) It Was an Awful Shame and Other Stories (2002) (short stories; a reprint of Grab Bag including three additional stories, one featuring Bittersohn & Kelling) Correspondence Charlotte MacLeod Remembered: Letters from Charlotte (collection) As editor (anthologies) Christmas Stalkings Mistletoe Mysteries Non-fiction Astrology for Skeptics (1973) Had She But Known: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart (1994) As Alisa Craig Mysteries starring Madoc Rhys of the RCMP & Janet Wadman Rhys A Pint of Murder (1980) Murder Goes Mumming (1981) A Dismal Thing to Do (1986) Trouble in the Brasses (1989) The Wrong Rite (1992) Mysteries starring Dittany Henbit Monk, of the Lobelia Falls Grub-and-Stakers Gardening & Roving Club The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain (1981) The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee (1985) The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke (1988) The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn (1990) The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt (1993) Stand-alone books The Terrible Tide (1985) Poems of Faith (1989) Awards and nominations Nero Award (1 win) Edgar Allan Poe Award (2 nominations) American Mystery Awards (5 wins) Bouchercon XXIII Lifetime Achievement Award 1986 Anthony award nomination for Best Novel, The Plain Old Man 1992 Anthony award nomination for Best Short Story Collection, Christmas Stalkings: Tales of Yuletide Murder Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award References 1922 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century Canadian novelists American mystery writers American women novelists Canadian mystery writers Canadian women novelists Nero Award winners Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Deaths from dementia in Maine Novelists from Maine Writers from New Brunswick Agatha Award winners People from Carleton County, New Brunswick Women mystery