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Henrietta Who
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Larking was a typical English village and like the thousand other villages it resembled Larking had its secrets, as Inspector C.D. Sloan was to discover after the postman found the murdered body of Grace Jenkins in the road that led to her thatched cottage. But the real mystery involved Grace's daughter Henrietta since no one could really explain ...
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The Religious Body
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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 English traditional mystery.
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Most Contagious Game
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When a London businessman retires early and buys a Tudor mansion, he's quite surprised--and perhaps even a little pleased (retirement being pretty boring)--to find a skeleton hidden in a secret room in the house. The skeleton appears to be more than a 150 years old, so the local police leave it to the homeowner to solve the mystery. The police are ...
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Stiff news
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A posthumous letter leads Inspector C.D. Sloane to some very strange goings-on at a regimental retirement home.
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A Late Phoenix
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When the bones of a man said to have killed during World War II is discovered at a bomb sight, Inspector Sloan is called in. It seems that there's a bullet hole in the skull. First published in 1971.
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Parting Breath
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Hole in One
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Detective Chief Inspector (D.C.I.) C. D. Sloan works in the deceptively quiet town and county of Calleshire, where for many years he's endured the pressures of his demanding, unreasonable boss and the company of Constable Crosby, Sloan's all too constant but not very helpful sidekick. He's also solved a series of complex murders in Aird's long ...
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His burial too
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Inspector Sloan must figure out how a murderer could have escaped the tower of a Norman church tower when both exits were blocked with rubble. First published in 1973.
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Little Knell
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A 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.
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Slight Mourning
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The Stately Home Murder
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The owners of Ornum Hall have fallen on hardtimes, so every Sunday they open the doors to their stately home of some 300 rooms to the paying public. When murder strikes, Inspector Sloan of the Calleshire C.I.D. grabs his Burke's Peerage and heads out to find out who stuffed a body in a knight's armor. The third--and funniest--of the Callehsire ...
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Passing Strange
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Things had gone wrong from the very beginning at the Almstone Flower Show, including, a missing fortune teller. But events take a decidedly macabre turn when the fortune teller is found--and Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby arrive to investigate a murder for which there seems no means, no motive, and no opportunity.
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Losing Ground
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When an 18th-century painting is stolen from an old manor house moments before the entire house is engulfed in flames, Detective Chief Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby are called in to investigate.
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Some Die Eloquent
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A Going Concern
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The late Octavia Garamond's last wishes were very odd indeed. Her request for a police presence at her funeral bothers Inspector C. D. Sloane, but not nearly as much as her insistence that her body be thoroughly examined after death. Amelia Kennerly is worried, too, when her holiday is interrupted by the news that she has been appointed executrix ...
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Last Respects
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Injury Time
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A collection of 16 stories of sleuthing featuring mystery veterans Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and Henry Tyler.
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After Effects
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Gilroy Pharmaceuticals is having problems: Dr. Meggie's been running a trial for one of their new drugs, and one of the participants has died. So, however, has a member of the control group, someone who was only taking a placebo. And then Dr. Meggie dies too. Uh oh. Lawsuits aplenty. Unless the investigator can roust a murderer.
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Chapter and Hearse: And Other Mysteries
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Aird's mix of deft plotting, sly wit, and clever writing have made her one of the most enduring traditional mystery writers. Comprising 17 short stories, this collection features Aird's best known characters.
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The Body Politic
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Harm's Way
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It was the task of the reconnaissance party of the Berebury Footpaths Society to see that the path was clear. And so it was until a passing crow dropped something exceedingly sinister before their very eyes. From this small beginning developed a murder hunt that cast its net over the trail of a missing financier, someone's ne'er-do-well son, and a ...
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Amendment of Life: A Mystery
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The body of woman turns up in the middle of a massive garden maze and Inspector C. D. Sloan is called in to investigate. The crime is ugly, the suspects are legion, and Sloan has his hands full with his own problems, many caused by his partner, Constable Crosby.
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A Dead Liberty
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The Complete Steel
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The man who-
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