The Calleshire Chronicles Volume Two: A Late Phoenix, His Burial Too, and Slight Mourning (The Calleshire Chronicles: Volume 2)

Synopsis

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 Constable William Crosby, award-winning author Catherine Aird maintained the perfect balance between cozy village mystery and police procedural. These three entertaining crime novels offer &“the very best in British mystery&” (The New Yorker). A Late Phoenix: In the quaint Victorian town of Berebury, England, a skeleton has been found in the crater of a World War II bomb site. But this corpse is no buried casualty of the Blitz. The cause of death, Detective Inspector Sloan discovers, is a bullet to the spine. His Burial Too: Detective Inspector Sloan puzzles over an industrialist crushed under the rubble of an old Saxon church tower. With no eyewitnesses and little evidence, the policeman doesn&’t seem to have a prayer of solving the case. And then a second body turns up. Slight Mourning: Twelve friends sit down for supper at Strontfield Park—but only eleven survive the evening. After dinner, the host offers to drive one of his guests home, only to die in a violent accident. His autopsy shows that he ingested enough barbiturates to kill a horse, and now the guest list is Sloan&’s roster of suspects.

Copyright:

1971

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

675 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781504055772

Publisher:

Open Road Media

Date of Addition:

02/27/25

Copyrighted By:

Catherine Aird

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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