Henrietta Who?
 Not of woman born?: The village of Larking is one of those quiet small towns where everyone fancies they know everything about everyone else, especially quiet-living widows like Grace Jenkins, bringing up one daughter, now away at university. It's so [... more]
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Losing Ground (Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan)
fabulous English police procedural: In Tolmie Park near Berebury, a thief stole the eighteenth century portrait of the 4th Baronet Sir Filligee from the wall; the artist Peter de Vesey was a local Calleshire aristocratic portrait painter still well known [... more]
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The Religious Body
a wonderful debut novel: You would think a 1966 novel on murder committed at a Roman Catholic convent in the English countryside would be dated. Not so! You'll find the mystery of the murder of Sister Anne to be cleverly plotted -- as is the novel. You' [... more]
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The Religious Body (C.D. Sloan Mysteries) (C.D. Sloan ...
a wonderful debut novel: You would think a 1966 novel on murder committed at a Roman Catholic convent in the English countryside would be dated. Not so! You'll find the mystery of the murder of Sister Anne to be cleverly plotted -- as is the novel. You' [... more]
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Little Knell
an engaing read with loads of dry humour: The Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan (Seedy to his friends) books are probably some of the cleverest police procedural British mysteries around. Written with minimal violence, this is a very well written series that [... more]
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Injury Time (G K Hall Nightingale Series Edition)
Not only Inspector Sloan, but Henry Tyler short stories: In this collection of 16 short stories, 3 feature Henry Tyler of the Foreign Office, 2 don't feature series characters, and the rest feature Inspector C.D. Sloan. His colleague, Inspector Harpe (' [... more]
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Parting Breath
A Town and Truncheon Mystery: Detective Inspector Slon expec ted trouble when he was called in to the student sit-in at Calleshire University. The dons were nervous, the students excited - it seemed inevitable that there would be a clash of some kind... [... more]
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After Effects
Medical Mystery a la Catherine Aird: It was a joy to read a medical mystery by the incomparable Ms. Aird. She is a "dab hand" at all types of mysteries, and in this book she turns her attention to an English medical thriller. As with all her [... more]
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A Late Phoenix
Sloan takes on a cold case that turns pretty hot...: In this installment of the C.D Sloan series by Catherine Aird called "A Late Phoenix", our Inspector is called to a scene where a body was found near a bombsite from WWII. At first, it just [... more]
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The Stately Home Murder (Rue Morgue Classic British ...
Sloan takes on Nobles in this Aird winner..: After a hyperactive child wanders where he shouldn't in an old castle and finds a body in a suit of armor, the Calleshire C.I.D is called in, and Inspector Sloan begins to piece together what happened to the [... more]
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Amendment of Life: A Mystery
Murder in a maze!: Catherine Aird's longevity in the mystery writing genre is explained by this book. She's been writing her CD Sloan mysteries for years, and in this, her most recent addition to the series, she still has all her skills intact. She write [... more]
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Chapter and Hearse: And Other Mysteries
22 cozy short stories, none in INJURY TIME: Most of the stories herein feature Aird's regulars: - Inspector C.D. Sloan (present-day policeman in the fictional county of Calleshire) - Henry Tyler (Foreign Office man, pre/post-WWII) - Rhuaraidh Mcmillan ( [... more]
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