The Stately Home Murder (The C. D. Sloan Mysteries), by Catherine Aird
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A dead body in a case of armor, a once-wealthy earl with lots to hide, a sprawling estate stacked with witnesses . . . it’s another head-scratcher of a case for Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan in this intriguing mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird 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 hyperactive little boy and his family are roaming Ornum House delightedly. The curious tyke sees a full suit of armor and lifts the visor . . . only to see a face staring out at him. As Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan soon finds, the man in the suit of armor is dead—and there’s a slew of suspects waiting to be interviewed. Was it the ditzy duchess? The disappointing nephew? One of the servants? The earl himself? It’s up to Sloan and his wisecracking sidekick, Detective Constable Crosby, to find out before the murderer strikes again.
The Stately Home Murder (The C. D. Sloan Mysteries), by Catherine Aird- Amazon Sales Rank: #101958 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Catherine Aird is the author of twenty-odd crime novels and story collections, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan. She holds an honorary M. A. from the University of Kent and was made an M.B.E. Her more recent works include "Amendment of Life", "Past Tense" and "Losing Ground". She lives in England.
From AudioFile A tourist discovers a body in a suit of armor on display at an English country estate. Suspicion centers on the owning family whose archetypical members are superbly portrayed by Robin Bailey. His takeoff on the two aged aunts is just delicious. Distinction is made, as it is in British society, between the aristocrats and ordinary folk like Detective Sloan, a continuing Aird sleuth. One senses that both writer and reader are having fun with this one. Bailey has read other of Aird's "cosy" mysteries, but has died, so this is the end. J.B.G. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. One of the old fashioned English mysteries. By J. Lesley Catherine Aird has been writing "English cozy" mysteries for many years now. This one seems to have been published first in 1969 as THE COMPLETE STEEL and then in 1970 with its present title.The Earl of Ornum has had to do the unthinkable, open Ornum House to paying customers. Times are hard for the landed gentry and in order to pay the taxman he made the decision which would have displeased his father immensely. On one of these tour days a young boy left his mother and sister to go exploring on his own and makes his way into the dungeon area, specifically to the armoury. Just the spot any self respecting 10 year old boy would want to explore. His mother and other members of his tour group join up with him just as he raises the visor on a set of armour and finds a very dead body inside. Enter Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby to find out what has been going on behind the scenes at the stately country house.Catherine Aird used the same characters in most of her mysteries and one of the interesting things about her books is that there is never any time period mentioned. No character ever ages. They all just continue along as if each book is the first one written. There are the usual list of participants from the Berebury Police: Sloan, Crosby, Superintendent Leeyes, the Pathologist Dr. Dabbe, police photographer Dyson and his assistant Williams. Then we come to the family and servants of Ornum House: the Earl and his Countess, their son and daughter, a nephew and his wife and the black sheep nephew nobody wants to talk about, and various excentric aunts and family retainers. Add to this mixture a whole bevy of servants from the butler, to the cook, the gardner and all the housemaids and you have a country house teeming with suspects.In some ways I really enjoy a Catherine Aird mystery. It will always have atmosphere and a fairly difficult-to-spot villain. But in other ways I often close the book thinking that I wish she had resisted the temptation to make her main characters irritating to me. Sloan never seems to answer a question put to him by Leeyes. You have to wait for Leeyes to dig the information out of him. Leeyes makes references to night classes he has taken which are somehow relevant to the case at hand and which the author uses to provide us with useful information which I would have preferred to get by Sloan making plain, honest-to-goodness statements. Crosby is always saying the wrong thing and butting in with comments not totally acceptable in the situation. Leeyes is impatient for Sloan to have solved the case yesterday. And yet, even having said these things, I like the books and have read most of them several times. Aird puts quite a bit of humor into her stories, although on a very dry wit level which is more appropriate for a murder scene. I suppose I'm just a sucker for the old fashioned English mystery. I wouldn't say this book comes highly recommended but it is a good book and I enjoyed it once again, even though I did remember who the murderer was.If you noticed the name of the country house, Ornum House, I'm sure you feel, as I did, that it is rather unusual. Even difficult to pronounce without having to sound it out each time. Here is a little clue: the book dedication says: For Munro-or Ornum-with love. At least by noticing that in the beginning it kept me from getting frustrated by the odd name.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A Literate, Witty and Very Cozy Murder By A. Anderson Catherine Aird has been overlooked, which is a shame. She consistently wrote literate, witty and clever mysteries of the sort that gave an English Cozy Murder a good name.A sprawling country home has converted most of its ground floor into a tourist attraction so the Earl and his Countess can pay the punishing Inland Revenue taxes. Obnoxious Michael Fisher is with his mother in their tour, and he discovers a body in one of the suits of armor. DI Sloan is called in, assisted by his only occasionally perceptive constable Crosby, and it is Sloan who must determine why the librarian has been killed and stuffed into the suit. Aird plays wittily with the separation of the classes (aristocrats and the rest of us), with Sloan's overbearing and clueless superior, and with the motives for murder where the butler may have done it--or maybe it is the ne'er do well nephew, the slightly forlorn daughter, the business manager, the crazy aunts or even the handyman/groundskeeper. There are the references to the classical education of English private schools, the difficulty of maintaining appearances and required noblesse oblige of the aristocracy.The pleasure of the book is less who-done-it than in the perceptive, dry detective plagued with more than his share of burdens and the light and comfortable tone maintained by a skilled author who is having a really good time with her story. This is a lovely way to spend a cup of tea, a couple of biscuits and a rainy afternoon.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Murder on a house tour By Stuart Fox I like all of Catherine Aird books, and this is a classic. When a young boy finds a body hidden in a suit of armour while on a house tour in Aird's fictional English county, suspician falls on the family of the Duke of Orman. Was it the Duke or his son? The Ditzy Duchess? The ne'er-do-well nephew? Inspector Sloane, stuck as always with Defective Crosby, is out of place in the Stately house, but, as the Chief Superintendant said, You can expect the tradional at the Duke's Estate.
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