From CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird: Caught between an angry government and his employer’s profits, an engineer conveniently dies . . . Can Calleshire’s greatest detective bring the guilty to justice? What’s the value of one British engineer when stacked against the exclusive mining r...
Lovely little British mystery with lots of local 'colour'! Catherine Aird's series of books starring PC C.D. Sloan is a gem. In "Last Respects" Sloan is at first perplexed by an unidentified corpse who was found in water...but had been dead much longer than it appeared. With a full cast of charac...
An elderly woman dies in hospital of heart failure. The death isn't unexpected but she was part of a drugs trial and her son receives an anonymous call suggesting that maybe her death was a little premature. Sloan and Crosby are clutching at straws and not getting any sort of help with their in...
Something seems to have gone wrong with the judging of the vegetables and fruit at the Almstone flower festival when some tomatoes which definitely aren't the best on show win first prize. This is the first indication that things aren't all they should be. The second is the dead body of the for...
Lucy Durmast is on trial for murder but she is taking her right to remain silent to extreme lengths and refuses to say anything - even to the extent of refusing to plead guilty or not-guilty. Her friend Kenneth died of poison shortly after eating a meal which she had cooked and served to him.Slo...
When flirtatious golfing beginner Helen Sewell goes in search of her wayward golf ball in the dreaded 'Hells Bells' bunker, she is not prepared for the horrible surprise that lies buried under the soft sand.
Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Callehsire C.I.D. makes his first appearance here as he looks into the murder of a nun at the Convent of St. Anselm. First published in 1966, The Religious Body was Aird's first book and immediately established herself as one of the leading exponents of the post-WWII E...
Another outstanding mystery by Aird featuring Inspector C.D. Sloan and Constable Crosby. Murder after Dinner Twelve people sat down for dinner at Strontfield Park, William Fent’s ancestral home. Thirteen would have been most unlucky. For the host, however, the evening could not have been unluck...
Murder in the QuadrangleThe college dons at the University of Calleshire fully expected trouble when the students planned to shake their ivory tower with a sit-in at Almstone Hall. But no one expected the very peculiar theft from a dormitory room...or the very dead body in the college quadrangle....
As the doctor said, it's not so important what Miss Wansdyke died from as to whom she left a quarter of a million in pounds. Inspector Sloan agrees.
An elderly woman dies an apparently natural death and a clause in her will insists that the police attend her funeral. The coroner is informed and it is decided that a post mortem needs to be carried out. In addition she has appointed a relative she has hardly ever met to be her executor. Amelia ...
This is an enjoyable read - whether or not you have seen the television series. I received a free copy of this book for review purposes from NetGalley. have been reading Catherine Aird's books for many years and have enjoyed all of them. I think Sloan and Crosby have to be one of the most amusing...
Tidying up the famous yew tree hedge at Aumerle Court was never Pete Carter's favorite job. He likes it even less this Monday morning when he reaches the exact center of the maze -- an allegory for death since the time of the Minotaur. He is supervised as ever by the redoubtable Miss Daphne, chat...
A large collection of artifacts is left to the Calleshire museum in the will of a local man once prominent in the British colonial service. But Inspector C. D. Sloan of the local police gets involved when the 3,000-year-old mummy case is found to contain a body that's been dead less than a week.
Decades ago, Germans bombed the village at Lamb Lane. But now redevelopment is under way. During the excavation, a workman finds the skeleton of a pregnant girl with a bullet lodged in her spine. The trail is definitely stone cold when C. D. Sloan takes on the case.
After her mother Grace Jenkins is found dead, run over twice by heavy car, Henrietta Eleanor Leslie, soon 21 in April, identifies body. Larking Inspector Sloane and Sgt Crosby of murder squad take over when pathologist reveals body never had children or husband. Suspects include eager fiancé Bill...
There the resemblance to the chubby Melanie Smithers, the conservation officer, ended. This woman was tall and willowy and as far as Detective Inspector Sloan could see under the hard hat, ash blonde. She was wearing white overalls and walked with the panache usually associated with the fashion c...
Hector Leanaig, Laird of Balgalkin, was never really welcome at Sheriff Rhuaraidh Macmillan’s home at Drummondreach.This was because whilst the sheriff’s writ ran throughout East Fearnshire he much preferred exercising his authority over those who lived at some little distance away from his home ...
For one thing, though, he was deeply thankful. With the help of Dillow he had at least managed to bottle up all the reporters in the same room. The thought of a stray one happening upon Lady Alice was too terrible to contemplate. “Gentlemen,” he began, “I can give you very little information—” “C...
‘Anywhere where we can sit down and compile a list,’ said Sloan, aware of a tiredness already seeping into his body. Sleep had come late and lightly to him the night before. ‘Back to the station, I think.’ Crosby brightened. ‘The canteen might be open now.’ It was. Cradling his hands round a larg...
It was thus easily accessible from the higher reaches of Whitehall (in both senses), the Admiralty, the headquarters of certain famous regiments and New—or rather New, New—Scotland Yard. Membership of the club was open to all those of a similar cast of mind to Sir John Mordaunt, fifth baronet (16...
Upon the instant, the lad uncurled himself from the rush-strewn floor and reached for his own set of pipes, listening intently the while. He began to pump up the bag under his arm even as he scrambled to his feet, making ready to carry out his duty of first identifying and then heralding any new ...
They comprised a catalogue of domestic violence and included a threat heard by Haines to take revenge on a woman – and the legal profession – whom Potts swore to Jack Haines had stripped him of half his worldly wealth by way of a divorce.Perhaps, noted Sloan, Norman Potts had already taken reveng...