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The Catherine Aird Collection: His Burial Too / Last Respects / Harm's Way
The Catherine Aird Collection His Burial Too / Last Respects / Harm's Way Author:Catherine Aird HIS BURIAL TOO — Murder in the Tower — At 11:30 PM. in the old Saxon church tower at Randall's Bridge, a huge statue toppled and smashed. Heavy blocks of broken marble now lay up against the doors, barring any exit. The solitary window was too narrow for a man to pass through; the belfry high above led only to the steep roof which rose beyond ... more »the reach of any ladder. When Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan put his shoulder to one tower door, it barely opened. Through the crack he could clearly see the room was empty -- except for the bells, the debris of shattered marble... and the protruding arm of a dead man. How did the murderer escape this sealed tower? Sloan's only clues: a spent match, an emerald earring, and a black thread.
LAST RESPECTS
Murder at Ebb Tide
"Found drowned, my foot," said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the fishing village of Edsway hadn't drowned after all. And he hadn't been a bather either, observed Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan. One simply didn't go swimming in a shirt and trousers. Not voluntarily. And what about the mysterious copper weight stuffed in the dead man's pocket... and the sunken ship offshore? The answer was murder, and Sloan set out in a dinghy to net the killer before another victim went to a watery grave.
HARM'S WAY
Murder as the Crow Flies
The finger dropped by a common crow on a woodsy English footpath was most uncommonly missing a body. But a single digit was enough to tell Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan that something was rotten in the county of Calleshire... something besides the dead man who lay unburied somewhere among the dewy green fields of British farmland. So while search teams scoured the area for the corpus delicti, Sloan went looking for evidence of murder in a county village's most fertile ground -- at the local pub. There the slips betwixt cup and lip might provide the clues to finding both corpse and killer in Inspector Sloan's most challenging case.« less