Chapter and Hearse
Collected Mysteries
Published on 2. June 2015
297 pages
978-1-5040-1058-0 (ISBN)
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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 bumbling sidekick a lesson in police procedure... on the day they both suffer from a bout of food poisoning.
Catherine Aird is a master of the short-story format. Starring the great detective C. D. Sloan, Henry Tyler of the Foreign Office, and the Sheriff of Fearnshire in sixteenth-century Scotland, Chapter and Hearsebrings together twenty-two short mysteries that span laugh-out-loud-funny anecdotes of feckless thieves and head-scratching whodunits.
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 bumbling sidekick a lesson in police procedure... on the day they both suffer from a bout of food poisoning.
Catherine Aird is a master of the short-story format. Starring the great detective C. D. Sloan, Henry Tyler of the Foreign Office, and the Sheriff of Fearnshire in sixteenth-century Scotland, Chapter and Hearsebrings together twenty-two short mysteries that span laugh-out-loud-funny anecdotes of feckless thieves and head-scratching whodunits.
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Catherine Aird (1930-2024) was the author of more than twenty volumes of detective mysteries and three collections of short stories. Most of her fiction features Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and Detective Constable W. E. Crosby. Aird held an honorary master's degree from the University of Kent and was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to the Girl Guide Association. She lived in a village in East Kent, England.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Change of Heart
- Due Diligence
- Time, Gentlemen, Please
- Cold Comfort
- Chapter and Hearse
- The Widow's Might
- Handsel Monday
- Preyed in Aid
- A Different Cast of Mind
- Examination Results
- Child's Play
- Like to Die
- Dead Letters
- Gold, Frankincense and Murder
- The Trouble and Strife
- Losing the Plot
- A Soldier of the Queen
- Touch Not the Cat
- Exit Strategy
- The Wild Card
- Coup de Grâce
- Dummy Run
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
