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International intrigue comes to a British village when an engineer is murdered in this mystery by a Diamond Dagger winner.

What’s the value of one British engineer when stacked against the exclusive mining rights to a rare, strategically important, and extremely valuable mineral?

The British-based Anglo-Lassertan Mineral Company finds itself in hot water when one of its engineers, Alan Ottershaw, hits and kills a pedestrian while driving in a foreign country—a nation that happens to be “on the sunny side of the Iron Curtain,” with thick veins of the strategically important mineral querremitte. This particular country has draconian laws about killings, so Ottershaw is relieved when he’s whisked back to Calleshire before the foreign police can throw him in jail. But now that the Lassertan government is threatening to strip the mining company of its most valuable contract, poor Mr. Ottershaw begins to worry about his safety—and when he dies suddenly in a war reenactment, it looks like a very convenient solution to everyone’s problem.

A little too convenient, if you ask Calleshire detective C. D. Sloan, who, along with his bumbling sidekick, Constable Crosby, must investigate the death. It seems that nearly everyone in town would prefer to forget that the Lassertan debacle ever happened—but why has a man been following around the Calleshire MP dressed as the Grim Reaper? Who has been sending death threats and live scorpions via post? Detective Sloan is on the case.

Length: 228 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Catherine Aird is the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan. She holds an honorary MA from the University of Kent and was made a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

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Publisher : Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (2 June 2015)
Language : English
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Print length : 228 pages

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Damaskcat

The Body Politic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 June 2015

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Alan Ottershaw is a mining engineer working in Lasserta, a small Middle Eastern country which has deposits of a particular ore needed for a secret weapon of great importance to the British government. Relationships with Lasserta are tricky and when Alan knocks down and kills someone in a road accident it looks like becoming an international incident and threatens the mining interests of his employer. Alan is sent home to Calleshire and no one is more relieved than he is.

When the re-enactment of the Battle of Lewes results in a real death Sloan and Crosby are presented with one of their most complex cases yet. In addition they have to try and find out who is threatening local MPs. Are the two things connected? I found this book engrossing reading and I didn't work out who the murderer was until almost the same time that Sloan and Crosby did.

This is an excellent portrait of village life and I loved the characters and the trade mark wry and ironic humour. I can thoroughly recommend this excellent series. If you want graphic violence, gritty inner city realism and detectives with complex private lives you want find those here - just an interesting mystery and two all too human detectives trying to bring a murderer to justice.

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ealovitt

"Why don't you drop dead?"

Reviewed in the United States on 25 December 2016

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This book is the 13th in Catherine Aird's 'Inspector C. D. Sloan' series, and was originally published in 1990. My husband and I both enjoyed these ingenious British mysteries starring Inspector C.D. Sloan and his clueless side-kick, Detective-Constable Crosby, and I was happy to see them come out on Kindle so I could read them all over again.

The procedurals are set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England which very much resembles the County of Kent where Catherine Aird (the pseudonym of novelist Kinn Hamilton McIntosh) lives.

“Why don’t you drop dead?”

Peter Corbishley, Member of Parliament for the East Berebury division of the County of Calleshire is used to handling hecklers, and ignores this one.

He is at Mellamby Chase in Calleshire because the Camulos Society (Camulos was a deity of the Celts that the Romans equated with Mars) was about to re-enact the celebrated clash between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort at the town of Lewes in Sussex in 1264.

While Corbishley is on site, one of his constituents asks for his help: Allen Ottershaw is a mining engineer who had fled the mineral-rich Middle Eastern Kingdom of Lasserta after accidentally hitting a pedestrian and killing him. He was afraid his employer, the giant Anglo-Lassertan Mineral Company, under pressure from the ruling sheikh, was going to send him back to Lasserta, and certain death.

As it turned out, Ottershaw needn't have worried about returning to Lasserta. He died of what appeared to be a heart attack during the re-enactment of the Battle of Lewes.

C.D. Sloan is not called in to investigate the death of Allen Ottershaw until ten days after the re-enactment, and only then because the local mortician found something unusual in the cremated remains of the unfortunate mining engineer.

The author plays fair with her clues, and by the end of "The Body Politic" you should be able to deduce the identity the villain before 'Seedy' Sloan claps him or her into the brig.

These Calleshire Chronicles have been labelled 'cozies' by some reviewers, but I find them a bit too edgy to easily fit into the 'cozy' category. Catherine Aird's humor has many hidden barbs. I'd classify her Inspector Sloan books as police procedurals, with interesting dollops of village life in not-so-cozy postwar England.

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Keith Jenkins

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Reviewed in the United States on 12 September 2017

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This was my first C D Sloan mystery. To me it moved a bit slow at times and other than Sloan the characters were somewhat one dimensional. Still, the basic plot was interesting and the mystery wasn't too predictable, with lots of twists and plenty of possible suspects. Recommended for buffs of history and mystery.

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avidreader

Fresh, funny and fascinating

Reviewed in the United States on 25 November 2015

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Leyes, Sloan & Crosby - sort of an intelligent Shep, Moe and Larry. Together they face the kind of crime that pops up in rural England, which is usually very convoluted and involves real detecting, rather than derring-do. The author's dry sense of humor adds an endearing dimension to all three main characters, as well as to a range of recurring minor parts and a delightful gallery of victims and villains. Aird is always a good read and an intriguing puzzle.

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and he comes up with the answer due to a fine detail that comes back to mind

Reviewed in the United States on 14 January 2017

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More than 2 stars, but not 3, to be specific. This is the most disappointing Inspector Sloan mystery by Aird I've read so far. The story is disjointed and difficult to follow. The usual wit is overdone and strained at times. As usual the solution comes to Sloan with a second victim, and he comes up with the answer due to a fine detail that comes back to mind. That parts all right, but it is a sad tale, really, overall.

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