The Gladstone bag: a Sarah Kelling mystery by Charlotte MacLeod

In ten words or less: Artists seek buried treasure on island; body found on shore.

Review: When Emma Kelling's friend asks her to play hostess to a group of guests at a summer home on remote Pocapuk Island, Emma hastily agrees. Her son Walter and his yodeling wife and children are planning to visit Emma, and there's only so much yodeling a doting mother can stand.

The artists and writers invited to the island are strangers to Emma, and evens turn even stranger when she is drugged on the ferry, and her bag of costume jewelry goes temporarily missing.

A light, fun, old-fashioned cozy, of the kind that is getting hard to find these days.

Why bother? It's not chick lit; it's not a thriller; just an entertaining mystery a la Agatha Christie.