From AudioFile
Art detectives Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn close in on "The Resurrection Man," a masterful art restorer who robs his customers of their precious treasures after he's done the repairs. McLeod peoples her stories with a diverse cast of characters (literally and figuratively). Narrator Peiffer enlivens the elderly, the young, and a variety of eccentrics who come alive amid her varied skills. This old-fashioned yet contemporary story is rich with amusing text and dialogue, all enhanced by this fine reading. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Kirkus Reviews
This tenth outing for investigators (specializing in art and antiques) Max and Sarah Bittersohn (The Silver Ghost, 1988, etc.) finds them spending a summer in Sarah's Beacon Hill house in Boston and deeply involved in the murder of Sarah's aged old friend George Protheroe, found stabbed to death in the overstuffed mansion he shared with unflappable wife Anora. Max and Sarah sense a connection to recent thefts of artworks newly restored by Bartolo Arbalest, who calls himself ``the Resurrection Man.'' After a series of eerie misfortunes, Arbalest has set up a tightly controlled atelier of artisans and restorers--all of them bodyguarded by patrician Carnaby Goudge. As mourners gather at the Protheroe home after George's funeral, a second murder begins to reveal the long-ago-in-India roots of the present carnage. The heavy-handed, near-parody plot is loaded with excess in all departments--myriad details of food, clothes, and furniture; arch dialogue; red herrings; fey characters; and, in the end, massive ennui. Strictly for faithful fans. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Book Description
Boston-based art detectives Sarah Kelling and husband Max Bittersohn were hoping for some time off after their last case, especially since Max is still recovering from a broken leg he suffered during the investigation. That hope dies quickly, though, when they run into Countess Lydia Ouspenska. The Countess, an expert forger of Byzantine icons, tells them that an old acquaintance, Bartolo Arbalest -- known in their circles as "The Resurrection Man" because of his skills in restoring damaged works of art -- has set up a Renaissance-style "guild" in their fair city, with a number of artisans working independently under one roof. Nothing mysterious about that, of course -- except for the fact that some of Boston's wealthiest citizens have been murdered shortly after valuable objets d'arts restored by Arbalest's organization were returned to them. When Sarah's old friend George Protherie becomes the latest victim, her investigation -- which, coming as no surprise, ties in with Max's search into Arbalest's background -- reveals that Protherie was not the staid Boston Brahmin he appeared. In fact, he was guarding an array of secrets that stretch back to his old days as an importer of oriental antiquities....

From the Publisher
6 1.5-hour cassettes

ANNOTATION

The multi-award-winning author of The Gladstone Bag and An Owl Too Many presents "another good-humored, entertaining whodunit"(Baltimore Sun), starring an engaging husband-and-wife sleuthing team. Recently restored objets d'art begin to vanish from the homes of Boston's high society, and the trail of their disappearance leads Sarah and Max to a lost treasure, a curse--and murder.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Boston-based art detectives Sarah Kelling and husband Max Bittersohn were hoping for some time off after their last case, especially since Max is still recovering from a broken leg he suffered during the investigation. That hope dies quickly, though, when they run into Countess Lydia Ouspenska.

The Countess, an expert forger of Byzantine icons, tells them that an old acquaintance, Bartolo Arbalest — known in their circles as "The Resurrection Man" because of his skills in restoring damaged works of art — has set up a Renaissance-style "guild" in their fair city, with a number of artisans working independently under one roof. Nothing mysterious about that, of course — except for the fact that some of Boston's wealthiest citizens have been murdered shortly after valuable objets d'arts restored by Arbalest's organization were returned to them.