Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan Series by Catherine Aird (6,17-18,21)
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Overview: Catherine Aird is the pen name of English author Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, who writes crime fiction novels. She is the author of the Sloan and Crosby series (aka The Calleshire Chronicles), which is the series that almost all of her novels belong to. Aird was born in Yorkshire, England, where she attended Waverley School and Greenhead High School. She served as Chair of the Crime Writers’ Assocation for 1990-91 and a Member of the Order of the British Empire due to her work with the Girl Guides. Catherine lives in a village near Canterbury, Kent, England, where she enjoys the village life.
Catherine Aird made her debut as a published novelist in 1966 with the novel The Religious Body. Since that time, she had written over 20 novels. Below is a list of Catherine Aird’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Genre:Fiction- Mystery
6. Slight Mourning
In this classic parlor mystery from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a dinner party that ended in murder. Twelve friends sit down for supper at Strontfield Park—but only eleven survive the evening. After dinner, the host, William Fent, offers to drive one of his guests home, only to die behind the wheel in a violent accident. The autopsy shows that Fent ingested enough barbiturates to kill a horse.
So begins a fresh tale of murder and deceit for Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan, whose list of suspects begins and ends with the surviving dinner guests. Among them are a theologian at the local university; Dr. and Mrs. Washby, whose wedding was the cause for celebration; Ursula Renville, tall, graceful, and utterly aloof; the fat and extravagant Mr. and Mrs. Marchmont; the spinster Miss Paterson; the rector’s daughter, Cynthia Paterson; Quentin Fent, heir to the Fent fortune; and Mr. Fent’s wife, the now-widowed Helen. Each of the guests had the opportunity to kill William Fent. But which one wanted him dead?
17. Stiff News
Almstone Manor is a fine old Tudor manor in Calleshire, England, set aside years ago as a rest home for members of a military regiment–the Fearnshires–and their families. Since most are in poor health during their time at Almstone Manor–as Gertrude Powell certainly was–it is no surprise when one of the residents dies. But Gertrude Powell is different–a letter to her son, mailed by her arrangement after her death, claims that someone is out to kill her.
Receiving the letter on the day of her funeral, Gertrude Powell’s son brings it to the attention of Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan. First, Sloan must stop the funeral in progress. Then he has to investigate Powell’s posthumous claims. Is the letter just the ravings of an ill, somewhat melodramatic woman? Or is something very sinister going on at Almstone Manor, whose residents have known each other for more than fifty years and some of whose very old grudges may run very deep indeed…
18. Little Knell
Colonel Caversham, once prominent in the British colonial service, has died and left his large collection of artifacts to the local Calleshire museum.Included in those artifacts is a 3,000 year old Egyptain mummy and case, now the responsibility of one Mr. Fixby-Smith, Curator of the Greatorex Museum.What should be a simple moving job, however, is complicated by the fact that the local coroner, Mr. Granville Locombe-Stableford, since no body — no matter how ancient — can moved without his consent. Which is how Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan is dragged away from his more pressing concern with the burgeoning local drug problem and sent to the museum to sort out egos and red tape. When the lid of the mummy case is raised, however, what greets the Corner, Curator, and Inspector is now what they expect.Instead of the remains of the ancient Rodoheptah, they find the body of an unidentified young woman who has been dead only a matter of days…
21. Losing Ground
The dramatic theft of an 18th Century painting is discovered just moments before the old manor house from which it was stolen — and is uniquely depicted in the background of the portrait — is set on fire. Making matters more grisly even is the pile of bones that is sighted in the blazing inferno moments before the roof collapses. What started as simple, if surprising, theft has quickly escalated to arson and, possibly murder, and now Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby have to piece together, a puzzle which has its roots deep in Berebury’s history. Although Tolmie Park, the property on which the manor house sits, has had a somewhat checkered and mysterious past there are those in the community who would fight to preserve it. There are also a number of factions within the area who have differing plans to develop the property, shrouding the fire in further suspicion. It is up D.C.I. C.D. Sloan to sift through this assortment of characters and, finally, illuminate the truth.
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