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  • THE CALLESHIRE CHRONICLES VOLUME FOUR
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A set of perfectly puzzling British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and "most ingenious" author ( The New Yorker).   Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective ...

    $329.00

  • THE CALLESHIRE CHRONICLES VOLUME FIVE
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A must-have collection of British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and "most ingenious" author ( The New Yorker).   Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Co...

    $329.00

  • THE CALLESHIRE CHRONICLES VOLUME TWO
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A set of intriguing British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and "most ingenious" author ( The New Yorker).   Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Constabl...

    $329.00

  • THE CALLESHIRE CHRONICLES VOLUME THREE
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A set of compelling British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and "most ingenious" author ( The New Yorker).   Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Constabl...

    $329.00

  • THE CALLESHIRE CHRONICLES VOLUME ONE
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A trio of sharp-witted British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and "a most ingenious" author ( The New Yorker).   In her debut novel in the long-running mystery series, The Religious Body, Catherine Aird introduced the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Constable Wi...

    $279.00

  • SOME DIE ELOQUENT
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A deadly mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird: Where there's a will, there's a way—for murder That Miss Beatrice Wansdyke had died is not particularly surprising. A chemistry mistress at the Girls' Grammar School in Berebury, she was a longtime sufferer of diabetes who managed to live her modest life to a ripe old age. But one thing is odd—Beatrice Wansdyke died ...

    $164.00

  • HARM'S WAY
    CATHERINE AIRD
    Can Inspector C. D. Sloan find his man when a dismembered appendage appears at a local farm in this mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird? When the Berebury Footpaths Society created their locally infamous motto, "Every walk a challenge," they couldn't have known just how apt it would be. Avid hikers Wendy Lamport and Gordon Briggs suffer from a good walk spoiled ...

    $119.00

  • PASSING STRANGE
    CATHERINE AIRD
    In this gripping mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, the village spinster dies behind a fortune teller's booth, and Calleshire's greatest detective looks into the future—and sees justice The annual Horticultural Society Flower Show would have gone off without a hitch were it not for one very pesky murder.   When nurse Joyce Cooper goes missing from the parish's...

    $119.00

  • INJURY TIME
    CATHERINE AIRD
    Sixteen short puzzlers from the inimitable Catherine Aird, author of the acclaimed C. D. Sloan Mysteries  A professional pickpocket and accomplished thief ignores his wife's warnings and embarks on an adventure that will change his life—perhaps for the better. A technological marvel of a sports car kills a pedestrian, but no one was at the wheel. A local lunatic admits to murde...

    $119.00

  • LAST RESPECTS
    CATHERINE AIRD
    In this C. D. Sloan Mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, a body is found in the river—but the victim didn't drown  When local fisherman Horace Boller decided to row his boat out on the tidal backwash of the river one morning, he couldn't have meant to land a catch like this. What he ended up with was a body floating on the river's surface. And judging by the sta...

    $119.00

  • A GOING CONCERN
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A bizarre clause in an elderly woman's will exposes a dirty secret—and a murder—in this "intricate, witty, and thoroughly delightful" mystery ( Publishers Weekly). It was an odd request, but when Octavia Garamond passed away, she left explicit instructions in her will: The police  must be present at her funeral, and the coroner should be exceptionally thorough when examining he...

    $119.00

  • AFTER EFFECTS
    CATHERINE AIRD
    In this mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a case of medical malpractice that looks a bit too much like foul play Muriel Ethel Galloway passed away at home, twitching and grasping at objects only she could see. Her family mourns, sad but unsurprised that an old woman suffering from heart disease should die suddenly....

    $119.00

  • THE BODY POLITIC
    CATHERINE AIRD
    International intrigue comes to a British village when an engineer is murdered in this mystery by a Diamond Dagger winner. What's the value of one British engineer when stacked against the exclusive mining rights to a rare, strategically important, and extremely valuable mineral?   The British-based Anglo-Lassertan Mineral Company finds itself in hot water when one of its engin...

    $164.00

  • A DEAD LIBERTY
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A crime of passion, a jealous admirer, a woman who would kill before she would be spurned—it might all fit if only the primary suspect would talk in CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird's  Dead Liberty  Lucy Durmast waits patiently in front of the judge at her own murder trial, refusing to utter a single word. Kenneth Carline, an employee of her father's, was found poisoned...

    $119.00

  • CHAPTER AND HEARSE
    CATHERINE AIRD
    Twenty-two bite-size mysteries from Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird A cat is the only witness to a brutal murder. An entire group gets sick during a birthday party, but only the birthday boy dies. A local thief is injured during a break-in of the Horticulture Society and seeks to press charges against the plant lovers. And Calleshire's greatest detective has to give his bu...

    $119.00

  • A LATE PHOENIX
    CATHERINE AIRD
    Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is called on to solve the coldest of cases in this thriller from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird Berebury, England, did not have an easy go of it during the Second World War. This quaint Victorian town was destroyed when the Nazis dropped bomb after bomb on its perfect gardens and neat hedges. After three decades of disarray, the town co...

    $164.00

  • THE RELIGIOUS BODY
    CATHERINE AIRD
    Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan prays he will find a nun's murderer in this British crime novel by a Diamond Dagger winner: "A most ingenious writer" ( The New York Times). The day begins like any other for Sister Mary St. Gertrude. When her alarm sounds at 5 a.m., Sister Mary begins rousting her convent sisters from their beds, starting with the Reverend Mother. Down the Order...

    $119.00

  • THE STATELY HOME MURDER
    CATHERINE AIRD
    In 1970s England, a broke nobleman and a body in a suit of armor present a puzzling mystery in this witty novel by a Diamond Dagger Award winner. It is the early 1970s, and times are tough in the upper reaches of British society. To survive the changing times, the Earl of Ornum has done the previously unthinkable and opened his estate to wandering tourists. One day, a hyperacti...

    $119.00

  • PARTING BREATH
    CATHERINE AIRD
    In this thrilling crime novel by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, a student's last words are all that Detective C. D. Sloan has to go on in his latest case There are rumblings throughout the campus of the University of Calleshire, talk of a sit-in, of revolt, of H? Chí Minh, of discontent. Malcolm Humbert has been expelled, and the students are livid. Meanwhile, the fa...

    $164.00

  • HIS BURIAL TOO
    CATHERINE AIRD
    Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan puzzles over an industrialist crushed under the rubble of a church tower in this crime novel by a CWA Diamond Dagger winner. On the hottest day in living memory, Richard Mallory Tindall, the owner of a patent firm, does not return home to Cleete village. When a man is found crushed to death, Tindall's case goes from missing person to homicide.   ...

    $164.00

  • SLIGHT MOURNING
    CATHERINE AIRD
    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....

    $119.00

  • HENRIETTA WHO?
    CATHERINE AIRD
    A hit-and-run murder unearths a case of mistaken identity in this " well-bred, well written and genuinely superior" mystery by the Diamond Dagger winner ( Kirkus Reviews). Early one morning in the quiet English village of Larking, the body of a woman named Mrs. Jenkins is found in the road. Miles away, her daughter, Henrietta, receives the bad news while working in the universi...

    $119.00