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The Stately Home Murder (Inspector Sloan, #3)

Catherine Aird

Start date: August 15, 2022

Finish date: September 9, 2022

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Jan 20, 2024 Infosifter rated it liked it

If you like a classic mystery with some dry humor, you will probably enjoy this series. 3.5 stars

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Jun 10, 2019 John Frankham rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-detective

Another delight from Catherine Aird. My fourth in short order, having just discovered this master of the post-war English whodunnit. Inspector Sloan on top lugubrious form, this time in a stately home, after a village, a nunnery, and a university in my previous three. Aird takes full advantage of each different milieu, in investigating the characters who populate each of these environments. Found myself laughing out loud many times as Sloan rubs against the upper crust!

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Aug 12, 2022 Ruth rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: golden-age-and-vintage

Catherine Aird's books are regularly discussed in Goodreads groups that I belong to, with positive reviews. After two previous attempts I've finally found a Catherine Aird book that I really enjoyed. Robin Bailey's narration made such a difference. His characterisation is excellent and he bought out the humour that I hadn't appreciated in the books I'd previously read.

I enjoyed the setting in an English country house at the end of the 1960s. The family hanging on financially but having to open t ...more

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Feb 02, 2015 Shauna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-crime-uk, 2015

The humour is what saved the book for me. Great comic characters but I felt that the murder solving was almost incidental to the fun. Not my favourite Catherine Aird by any means.

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Oct 27, 2018 Sandy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audible-read, mystery-classic, own, mystery-detective-grp, z2022-own-24, rread-2022, rread-2018

Good mystery with a unique set up (the body is discovered in a suit of armor) but the real attraction is the author's quiet, dry humor.

Added another star after my reread, by audio this time. Great humor: Sloan explaining to Crosby why he is unlikely to see a griffin and wondering if a knot garden is like a Noh play. ...more

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