Read Series: Inspector Sloan
by Author Catherine Aird
Henrietta Who? (1968)
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...
A Late Phoenix (1983)
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.
Little Knell (2001)
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.
Amendment of Life (2002)
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...
Stiff News (1999)
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...
A Going Concern (1994)
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 ...
Some Die Eloquent (1985)
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.
Parting Breath (1984)
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....
Slight Mourning (1982)
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...
The Religious Body (2007)
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...
Hole in One (2005)
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.
A Dead Liberty (1987)
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...
Passing Strange (1983)
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...
After Effects (1996)
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...
Last Respects (1984)
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...
The Body Politic (1991)
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...