Investigating a baffling series of greenhouse break-ins that are rumored to be the work of a saboteur, detectives Sloan and Crosby discover unsettling links between the case and the suspicious disappearance of a mysterious woman.
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The Detection Club was founded by the creme de la crime of British crime writing in 1930 and its members included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley and the Club's first president, G. K. Chesterton. The Detection Club was a way for crime writers to get together,...
The maze at Aumerle Court is a popular tourist attraction. When a woman's body is found therein, Sloan and DC Crosbie are summoned to investigate. The case proves to be even more labyrinthine than the maze itself.
Because a blow to the head has almost totally incapacitated detective Inspector Trevor Porrit, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is obliged to take over a case involving the poisoning of a civil engineer. It looks to be fairly open and shut, until Sloan finds himself intrigued by t...
When Mrs. Galloway, who suffers from heart disease, finally passes away it comes as no shock to the staff at Berebury Hospital. Abel Granger's family had also been long prepared for her death that same morning. So why then has Mrs. Galloway's son called in Detective Inspector Slo...
"Josephine Short was clearly a very practical woman but it also appears she was a woman with a secret or two. When her great-nephew's wife, Janet Wakefield, gets a call from the Berebury Nursing Home, she's somewhat taken aback. Not only does it come as a surprise to hear that he...
Last Writes is a mischievously clever compendium of twenty-two short stories from the pen of classic crime author Catherine Aird. Not only do her much-loved police duo Detective Inspector Christopher Sloan and Detective Constable William Crosby feature, but also a list of new cha...
Detective Inspector Slon expected trouble when he was called in to the student sit-in at Calleshire University. The dons were nervous, the students excited - it seemed inevitable that there would be a clash of some kind ... But murder?
Four strangers arrive at the solicitors' office of Puckle, Puckle, and Nunnery. They have never met, and have no idea why they have been invited. But they - along with a missing man - are descendants of the late Algernon George Culver Mayton, the inventor of 'Mayton's Marvellous ...