The Withdrawing Room (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries)

Sarah Kelling is glad her curmudgeonly complaining boarder Barnwell Augustus Quiffen was squashed under a subway train, and looks forward to another resident in her historic Boston brownstone. But an odd eyewitness insists Quiffen was pushed. Sarah and her basement boarder, art historian Max Bittersohn, are a proven team in solving murder. "Money problems are making pretty Sarah Kelling anything but a merry widow. Renting out rooms to Boston's upper crust seems the very proper way to survive genteel poverty on Beacon Hill ... until the curmudgeonly old gentleman in the withdrawing room suite steps out for the day and into the path of a speeding Boston subway. The eyewitness account of an elderly trashpicker convinces sweet Sarah that this unfortunate accident had malice aforethought. and who but her eccentric array of paying guests are the perfect suspects in murder so foul? A new tenant soon takes down our luckless landlady's 'vacancy' sign ... but death is about to serve another eviction notice on the balmy boarders of the Kelling family manse."--Back cover