Drugs, laundered money, extortion and, of course, murder concern the delightful Inspector C.D. Sloan, last seen in 1998's Stiff News, in this intricately plotted police procedural from British veteran Aird. When a 3,000-year-old mummy case is...
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The theft of an 18th-century portrait of one of the owners of Tolmie Park in Berebury, Calleshire, just before flames destroy part of the historic house sparks British veteran Aird’s 20th mystery to feature Det. Insp. C.D. (“Seedy”)
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Catherine Aird, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-29080-1
Last seen in Little Knell (2001), DI C.D. Sloan, ""head of the tiny Criminal Investigation Department of `F' Division of the County of Calleshire Constabulary,"" looks into the murder of a woman found at the center of a Tudor-period maze....
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Catherine Aird, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-312-29084-9
Collects 22 short stories involving such favorite Aird characters as DCI C.D. Sloan and the Secret Service's Malcolm Venables.
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Catherine Aird, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-34229-6
Fans have waited two years for another of Aird's Calleshire County police procedurals, and if you like golf, this well-crafted whodunit was especially worth the wait. ""Seedy"" Sloan and his trip-over-the-truth sidekick, Detective Constable Crosby,...
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Catherine Aird, Author Doubleday Books $12.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-385-23554-9
Because a blow to the head has almost totally incapacitated detective inspector Trevor Porrit, detective inspector C. D. Sloan is obliged to take over a case involving the poisoning of a civil engineer. It looks to be fairly open and shut, until...
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Catherine Aird, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11423-7
Intricate, witty and thoroughly delightful, Aird's latest case for Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan and Constable Crosby probes a death with roots in WW II biochemical research. Eccentric, elderly Octavia Garamond has left a will directing that the...
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Catherine Aird, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13095-4
These 16 clever short puzzlers by the accomplished British author will serve as an excellent introduction to new readers and be a sure delight to fans. Most center around the investigations and acute observations of Berebury Detective Inspector...
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Catherine Aird, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-20023-7
Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire Constabulary and his sidekick Detective Constable Crosby (After Effects, 1996, etc.) investigate possible murder at a nursing home in the new, very British, mystery from Aird. Following the death of...
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Catherine Aird, Minotaur, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-67291-1
In British veteran Aird's brilliantly sardonic 23rd fair-play whodunit featuring Calleshire County Det. Insp. C.D. Sloan and Sloan's sidekick, Detective Constable Crosby (after 2008's Losing Ground), Sloan starts with a relatively benign inquiry....
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Catherine Aird. Minotaur, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-04113-5
Nobody tops Aird at police procedurals imbued with sly British humor, as shown in her 24th mystery featuring Calleshire County Det. Insp. C.D. Sloan (after 2011’s Past Tense). In separate inquiries, Sloan must determine who opened the greenhouse...
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Catherine Aird. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8932-4
In Aird’s quaintly archaic 26th Sloan and Crosby mystery (after 2016’s Learning Curve), five individuals of varying ages and backgrounds gather at a solicitors’ office in Berebury, England, where they learn that they are the heirs—along with one...
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