Charlotte MacLeod
1922-2004
Pseudonym: Alisa Craig
 

Charlotte MacLeod was born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada. In 1923, she emigrated to the U.S. where she became a naturalized citizen in 1951. She was a staff artist and copy writer at Stop and Shop Supermarkets in Boston, MA from 1945 to 1952. In 1952, she began working for an advertising firm, N. H. Miller & Co., Inc. She began as a copy chief and became a vice president. She worked for this firm till 1982. She is the creator of:
1. 'Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn', amateur sleuths.
2. 'Peter Shandy', a professor and amateur sleuth.
3. 'Madoc Rhys', a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector (under the pseudonym 'Alisa Craig').
4. 'Dittany and Osbert Monk', amateur sleuths in Lobelia Falls, Ontario (under the pseudonym 'Alisa Craig').
 

Titles and year of publication:  

'Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn' Novels
 1) The Family Vault  1979
 2) The Withdrawing Room  1980
 3) The Palace Guard  1981
 4) The Bilbao Looking Glass  1983
 5) The Convivial Codfish  1984
 6) The Plain Old Man  1985
 7) The Recycled Citizen  1988
 8) The Silver Ghost  1988
 9) The Gladstone Bag  1990
10) The Resurrection Man  1992
11) The Odd Job  1995
12) The Balloon Man  1998
'Peter Shandy' Novels
 1) Rest You Merry  1978
 2) The Luck Runs Out  1979
 3) Wrack and Rune  1982
 4) Something the Cat Dragged In  1984
 5) The Curse of the Giant Hogweed  1985
 6) The Corpse in Oozak´s Pond (Nero Wolfe Award)  1987
 7) Vane Pursuit  1989
 8) An Owl Too Many  1991
 9) Something in the Water  1994
10) Exit the Milkman  1996
'Madoc Rhys' Novels (as 'Alisa Craig')
 1) A Pint of Murder  1980
 2) Murder Goes Mumming  1981
 3) A Dismal Thing to Do  1986
 4) Trouble in the Brasses  1989
 5) The Wrong Rite  1992
'Dittany and Osbert Monk' Novels (as 'Alisa Craig')
 1) The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain  1981
 2) The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee  1985
 3) The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke  1988
 4) The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn  1990
 5) The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt  1993
Other Novels
 1) Mystery of the White Knight  1964
 2) Next Door to Danger  1965
As 'Alisa Craig'
 1) The Terrible Tide  1983

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