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A Dead Liberty

Catherine Aird

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

UK: Collins

Religious Body

Sister Anne has been thrown down the cellar stairs, and Inspector Sloan wonders who in God's name would want to murder a cloistered nun? Sloan's task is complicated by the unusual witnesses - 50-plus discreet, identically dressed nuns, each of whom has an assumed name and a past secular life.

Mystery

HarperCollins Distribution Ser

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.

Late Phoenix

Fontana

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.

His Burial Too

Inspector C.D. Sloan investigates the death of Octavia Garamond, who left behind some very unusual requests and whose past contains a long-kept, and potentially dangerous, secret, as well as the reason for her death.

A Going Concern

Pan Books

The newest inspector Sloane mystery from one of the masters of the traditional British mystery. Mrs. Galloway had not been well for some time, so her death should have come as no shock. But her son, unhappy with the quality of her care, insists that the police investigate. An anonymous informer, a surprising suicide, and other clues lead Investigator Sloan to suspect that something more sinister than coincidence is afoot.

After Effects

For decades, Catherine Aird's crime novels featuring C.D. Sloan have been beloved by fans and lauded by critics for their adroit plotting, playful wit, and literate charm. With Amendment of Life, Aird delivers the lively and engrossing novel that readers have come to rely upon. Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire CID is used to the occasional oddity in his relatively quiet part of the English countryside. But lately things have taken a strange turn. First, in the center of a yew maze that is the showpiece of the Tudor-era house, Aumerle Court, a body is spotted by Miss Daphne Pedlinge, the elderly chatelaine of the Court. By the time the groundskeeper actually makes it to the center, he, too, spies the body, and it is indeed dead. Meanwhile, a few miles away, a slaughtered rabbit is left on the Bishop's doorstep in nearby Calleford, an omen as portentous as the body in the maze. Now Inspector Sloan, with the somewhat trying personage of Constable Crosby in tow, must uncover what precisely is going on as they launch an investigation with more twists and turns than the maze itself.

Amendment of life

Macmillan

BANTAM BOOKS

"Sister Anne," said the Mother Superior unperturbed, "died on Wednesday evening sometime after supper, probably in the corridor leading from the Great Hall to the kitchens. Her body was put into the broom cupboard and later thrown down the cellar steps. "Who would want to kill a cloistered num? But, astonishingly, someone had. It was as much of a surprise to the sisters of the Convent of St. Anselm as it was to Inspector C. D. Sloan, Criminal Investigation Department. But now it was up to the Inspector to find the motive and the murderer.

The Religious Body (C. D. Sloan Mystery)

On the pathologist's cold metal table lay the naked body of Beatrice Gwendoline Wansdyke, spinster...Dead of perfectly natural causes at age 59. "The Problem," mused the good doctor, "is not so much what she died from as what she died with: a quarter of a million pounds, in a bank account no maiden lady of modest means should have." Detective Inspector C.D. SLoan could feel in his bones it was murder. He had guessed at the motive. He would surely uncover the method. But couldn't he find out where-oh-where had her little dog gone? And why would looking almost cost him his life?

Some Die Eloquent (C. D. Sloan Mystery)

Thrillers & Suspense

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Books by Catherine Aird

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A Dead Liberty

Religious Body

Late Phoenix

His Burial Too

A Going Concern

After Effects

Amendment of life

His Burial Too

The Religious Body (C. D. Sloan Mystery)

Some Die Eloquent (C. D. Sloan Mystery)