The Fat Lady's Ghost

Charlotte MacLeod offers us a Boston boarding house run by an ex-circus performer who just happens to be very good with wild cats.Our heroine, an aspiring designer, comes to the boarding house in order to go to art school. MacLeod presents a varied group of interesting students who share the dwelling. That's interesting as in romantic interest as well as academic interest.But there's a mystery involved in this YA story. MacLeod fans will enjoy this forerunner to the Sarah Kelling/ Max Bittersohn series

Corin is a beauty, but on a budget. As she lives at the boarding house she realizes the house has a secret. She decides not to get close to the other boarders and the owner. But one of the young men is throwing himself at her. The secrets of the house draw her in. Worth reading.

This book reminded me of Elizabeth caseload writing. Interesting characters a good story, fun lives. I wish she had written more about the other subordinate characters.

Great comforting mystery. For a murder mystery it has very little angst but it does have a plot line that drives you to read the next page. Nothing that’s too high brow as far as detecting so you can see yourself taking the same steps in the story. .

This charming mystery was a quick and easy Kindle read. It is clearly related to MacLeod's first Sarah Kelling book, with the Boston boarding house setting and the resourceful, artistic-but-penniless young heroine. Like the Kelling mysteries, it is nominally set in the 1960s, but seems to take place in the 1930s, when the author was a teenager. Like all of MacLeod's books, it revels in old-fashioned gender roles. I suspect MacLeod, who had a business career of her own, may have gotten a good laugh from idealizing women who (in good Depression fashion) whip up delicious meals on pennies and sew themselves marvelous wardrobes from remnants and castoffs. They don't know how to drive, and they always defer to the judgment and protection of males. In all of her books, women's concerns are domestic, decorative, and trivial, while men have real careers and expertise. If you can't deal with these attitudes, tongue-in-cheek as they may be, don't read her books.

I thought I'd read all MacLeod's books but just found this one. It is an enjoyable story. Written when a student could rent a comfortable room for $18 a week. Sounds amazing now but back then many people made friends in their rooming houses.

there is no ghost it is a loe story kinda. dumb