The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke Kindle Edition

PG Wodehouse and Agatha Christie meet in this wonderful series. Thoroughly enjoyable as is everything by Charlotte Macleod. Definitely a must read.

Charlotte Macleod will be sorely missed. Having completed my collection of her mystery books, I'm on the lookout for her short stories. This series is light, fun and well written as are all her works.

I enjoyed the books by Charlotte MacLeod, who also wrote as Alisa Craig, many years ago, but had not seen any of her works in print for decades. This situation with many authors from the past is why I finally bought a Kindle Paperwhite, and I have recently purchased all of the Madoc & Janet Rhys books, as well as a few others from the other series that she wrote. My only complaint is that these books for Kindle are almost always as expensive as getting an actual book, but sometimes the individual books will suddenly be only $2 or $3, instead of $8 or more, and then I try to get them before the price goes up again. I always thought that the whole idea for developing e-readers was to give people the chance to buy book downloads for less than a physical copy would be, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Sellers of e-readers might stop to consider that for an e-reader to be cost-effective, the books should be priced accordingly, especially for these older books. Another good idea, that took off and then people got greedy, and here we are again.

Alas Charlotte MacLeod is no longer with us, but I love all her books. I've re-read this once since buying it because it's that much fun.

Charlotte MacLeod was a very creative and clever mystery writer. Her characters are so likable. I wish she had been able to live and write longer.

From the publisher:"Lobelia Falls was abuzz about the Scottsbeck drama competition. The Grub-and-Stake Gardening and Roving Club intended to win it with a dramatization of "The Shooting Of Dan McGrew". The house lights went down, the footlights went up... and someone tried to make opening night the leading man's final curtain!"This is the third book in the Dittany Henbit Monk & Osbert Monk series, but the first I've read, although I have several of them in hardback book club editions. I enjoyed her other series much more than this one, mostly because it is not easily read, and I do the majority of my reading at night, when I'm tired. I can't readily explain why this was too "wordy" except to say that 15 words are used to say something that could have been related with 5. And the names! (Except I did enjoy "Andy McNaster" the villainous innkeeper.)

The Grub & Stakers series is one of my favorite. Well-written and fun to read!

Early in her career the late Charlotte MacLeod wrote under the penname Alisa Craig. They hallow all the trademark signatures of a McLeod: witty and absurd delivered with geat style. The perfect escape venue for a light fluffy mystery higlighted with deep chuckles.Dittany Henbit Monk and all her friends united to stage a play written by her husband, Osbert, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." Their goal is to win a collection of theatrical memorabilia, but someone is desperate to kill off one of the leading men.Make sure this volume is part of your collection.Nash Black, author of SANDPRINTS OF DEATH