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This is the eleventh in the Inspector Sloan (and not forgetting D C Crosby) series and it is a series that I fall more and more in love with as I read on. I know that I will re-read these and they will become companions.
In this novel the Berebury Footpaths Society 'Every walk a challenge!' have sent out ex-schoolteacher (and bore extraordinaire) Gordon Briggs and young Wendy Lamport to reconnoinaitre a possible walk. The footpath, an ancient right of way, goes across farmland and some farmers da ...more
In this novel the Berebury Footpaths Society 'Every walk a challenge!' have sent out ex-schoolteacher (and bore extraordinaire) Gordon Briggs and young Wendy Lamport to reconnoinaitre a possible walk. The footpath, an ancient right of way, goes across farmland and some farmers da ...more
Found it enjoyable. Did not guess the killer. Love how they tried to dispose of the body.
I don't understand this "walking" business though. Must be a British thing. You can't do that here. Here, it would be trespassing. There is no free right of way. ...more
I don't understand this "walking" business though. Must be a British thing. You can't do that here. Here, it would be trespassing. There is no free right of way. ...more
4.5 stars for this fast-paced entry in this entertaining police procedural series. Here, Inspector Sloan and his flippant sidekick, Constable Crosby, are called in on an unusual case. Two members of a local walking club are checking out a footpath in a rural part of the county; just as they pass through a farmyard, a crow flies overhead, dropping something in their path - a human finger…
What follows is a hunt for the body the finger came from - and there are several intriguing suspects and motiv ...more
What follows is a hunt for the body the finger came from - and there are several intriguing suspects and motiv ...more
Review of the audiobook narrated by Derek Perkins.
I seem to have accidentally on purpose started a Catherine Aird glom, as this is my third in three weeks. Several of the Inspector Sloan books are free on Audible Plus, which is what got me started.
I enjoy Sloan and his rather dull sidekick; the snarky chief superintendent not so much. I like the setting in the fictional county called Calleshire. I'm entertained by Aird's generous use of literary allusions and quotations (many of which I have to ...more
I seem to have accidentally on purpose started a Catherine Aird glom, as this is my third in three weeks. Several of the Inspector Sloan books are free on Audible Plus, which is what got me started.
I enjoy Sloan and his rather dull sidekick; the snarky chief superintendent not so much. I like the setting in the fictional county called Calleshire. I'm entertained by Aird's generous use of literary allusions and quotations (many of which I have to ...more
A crow drops a human finger in front of some ramblers one weekend leading to a complicated case for Sloan and Crosby. First of all they need to find the rest of the body and once they've found it work out who it is. They have several possible victims and several possible suspects.
I've always thought this is was one of the most gruesome of this excellent series. Generally the reader does not get to hear much about the body but in this book there is quite a bit of information about it. Nevertheles ...more
I've always thought this is was one of the most gruesome of this excellent series. Generally the reader does not get to hear much about the body but in this book there is quite a bit of information about it. Nevertheles ...more
When a crow drops a human finger at the feet of a hillwalker passing through a farm, you know there's going to be an interesting hunt, both for the rest of the body and then for the killer. Inspector C.D. Sloan, on his 11th outing with D.C. Crosby, has a big job ahead to find and identify the body and then figure out whodunnit. There is a suitable list of possible victims and suspects, a sympathetic portrayal of the local characters, and a satisfying wrap up in this short novel from the 1980's.
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Read in one sitting: Sloan at his most patient, Crosby being annoyingly inappropriate. Interesting start to the investigation.
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