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The Palace Guard
- Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Series: A Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mystery, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Publisher's Summary
Sarah knows she shouldn't be here. The Kellings never did get invited back after that unfortunate incident when Madam Wilkins first opened her palatial museum to Boston's most critically outspoken Brahmins. But things have been quiet at Sarah's elegant Beacon Hill boarding house lately - nobody's been murdered in months. Lodger Max Bittersohn has free passes to today's concert, and he's one man she finds hard to turn down. But then something falls past them from the floor above, and the oldest guard sprawls dead among the hyacinths.
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- Jan
- 09-03-18
Great vintage read!
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!