There are 12 books in the Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries series. The newest book is The Balloon Man which came out in 1998.

1
The Family Vault

The Family Vault
An aging stripper's fresh corpse turns up in an old family tomb at Boston Common in this "first-rate suspense whodunit" (The Cincinnati Post).

Like many old New England families, the Kellings live to die. Although their family vault is spacious and comfortable, it will not do for Sarah Kelling's Great-Uncle…
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2
The Withdrawing Room

The Withdrawing Room
Continuing the definitive series of classic mysteries by American Mystery and Nero Wolfe Award-winning author Charlotte MacLeod. What's the proper way for a Boston landlady to react when her most obnoxious boarder - curmudgeonly Barnwell Augustus Quiffen, gets squashed by a subway train? Sarah Kelling already has a far nicer…

3
The Palace Guard

The Palace Guard
Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn become involved in a complicated case of art forgery when a guard at a Boston museum is murdered

4
The Bilbao Looking Glass

The Bilbao Looking Glass
Sarah Kelling's peaceful summer holiday at Ireson's Landing becomes a deadly nightmare when her two neighbors are murdered and her friend May is arrested and charged with the killings

5
The Convivial Codfish

The Convivial Codfish
Max Bitterson and Sarah Kelling seek the missing Order of the Convivial Codfish, a sterling silver pendant that disappeared during a ceremonial dinner from the neck of the newly appointed Exalted Chowderhead
Murder upstages a Kelling family theatrical production—and Boston’s art sleuths are on the case. “The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod’s cup of tea” (Chicago Tribune).
 Producing a Gilbert & Sullivan opera requires a special kind of madness, and the Kelling family is large enough and peculiar enough to undertake an…
A “funny and exciting” mystery in the series featuring a husband-and-wife sleuthing team in Boston (Publishers Weekly).

Boston and its suburbs are stuffed with Kellings, and the city is about to get one more. Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn—a pair of amateur sleuths equally at home in back…

8
The Silver Ghost

Book cover of The Silver Ghost
Missing Rolls Royces, Renaissance fair revelry—and murder: “A witty, literate and charming mystery” featuring Boston’s married art sleuths (Publishers Weekly).
 Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max Bittersohn, have made names for themselves tracking down stolen paintings, sculptures, and, when necessary, the occasional murderer. But this is the first time they…

9
The Gladstone Bag

The Gladstone Bag
When detective Sarah Kelling's aunt finds her life in danger on the cozy island inn where she retreated for relaxation, she summons Sarah and her detective-husband Max Bittersohn to track a murderer

10
The Resurrection Man

The Resurrection Man
At the same time Max is reacquainted with an old friend who runs an exclusive art restoration business, he and his wife must investigate the disappearance of valuable pieces of art from the homes of Boston's wealthiest citizens. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

11
The Odd Job

The Odd Job
When a museum administrator is stabbed to death with a hat pin, popular Boston detective Sarah Kelling must interrupt her seaside idyll and pursue her twelfth case, in this best-selling whodunit series. By the author of Something in the Water.

12
The Balloon Man

Book cover of The Balloon Man
Since she has been warmly embraced by her husband's family, Sarah Kelling decides to throw her nephew a swanky wedding at her parents' seaside estate, but plans go awry when her husband Max is attacked by a burglar eager to pilfer the bride's jewels and a hot air balloon drops…