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A Dead Liberty (The Calleshire Chronicles) Audio CD – CD, 5 November 2019

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A crime of passion, a jealous admirer, a woman who would kill before she would be spurned--it might all fit if only the primary suspect would talk in CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird's A Dead Liberty.

Lucy Durmast waits patiently in front of the judge at her own murder trial, refusing to utter a single word. Kenneth Carline, an employee of her father's, was found poisoned to death after eating a meal that Lucy herself had prepared.

Kenneth was set to marry another, and Lucy, it seems, was jealous. But what should have been an open-and-shut case of envy-driven murder becomes complicated when primary detective Trevor Porritt suffers permanent brain damage. C. D. Sloan inherits the file--and immediately begins poking holes in what looked like an airtight case. Why has the primary suspect gone mute? What was the victim doing with antinuclear pamphlets in his car? Was Detective Porritt's run-in with the burglar an unhappy coincidence? And what part does the king of the African nation of Dlasa, a client of Lucy's father, play in all this?

When someone connected to the case dies and the son of the king of Dlasa goes missing, panic begins to spread. Can Inspector Sloan and his hapless assistant, Constable Crosby, untangle this knotted web?

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Publisher : Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition (5 November 2019)
Language : English
Audio CD : 1 pages
ISBN-10 : 198263314X
ISBN-13 : 978-1982633141
Dimensions : 14.61 x 0.64 x 13.97 cm

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Catherine Aird is as clever a detective writer as Margery Allingham.

-- "Times Literary Supplement (London)"

Aird's delicious concoctions are never less than elegant and mischievously sharp.

-- "Times (London)"

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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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Damaskcat

A Dead Liberty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2015

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Lucy Durmast is on trial for murder but she is taking her right to remain silent to extreme lengths and refuses to say anything - even to the extent of refusing to plead guilty or not-guilty. Her friend Kenneth died of poison shortly after eating a meal which she had cooked and served to him.

Sloan and Crosby are given the task of reviewing what seems like an open and shut case because the original investigating officer is ill. Sloan is not convinced that Lucy is guilty but he cannot at first see who else could possibly have had means motive and opportunity.

Obscure African countries, civil engineering projects and a thoroughly ingenious method of murder makes this an interesting and entertaining read. This is one of Catherine Aird's excellent Sloan and Crosby series which I don't believe I'd read before. It is, in my opinion, one of the best in this excellent series and I defy anyone to work out who did it and why.

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Warden

Derek Perkins is no Robin Bailey

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2020

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Hearing Calleford (and Calleshire) pronounced "Kale-" is disconcerting, but when Braffle Episcopi is constantly pronounced "EpiscoPIE" it's very difficult to concentrate on the story. Although the reading may be to blame, I didn't find this one of Catherine Aird's more convincing stories - though after "Henrietta Who?" she has a lot to live up to.

Pat

a good read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2015

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I collect her books - Sloane and co, a good read.

ealovitt

The Silent Woman

Reviewed in the United States on 14 January 2017

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This book is the 12th in Catherine Aird's 'Inspector C. D. Sloan' series, and was originally published in 1986. 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.

Who stood to gain from the poisoning death of Kenneth Carline, a young civil engineer? Lucy Durmast, arraigned on the charge of his murder, fed him chili con carne for lunch shortly before he died, and she refuses to speak at all--not to the police, nor to lawyers, nor to friends, nor to the court. Her father is the head of the civil engineering firm that employed the deceased, but he is in Africa, working on a new project.

Sloan and 'Defective Constable' Crosby must take over the murder case almost a year after Kenneth Carline died from a dose of hyoscine hydrobromide, but their chief suspect won't talk to them. Kenneth Carline had been about to attend the opening ceremony for a new tunnel under the River Calle when he died, so Sloan and Crosby scrutinize the protesters who disrupted it. Then Lucy receives a death curse in the mail, and the investigation turns toward Africa.

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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Sharon Weyant-Muir

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Reviewed in the United States on 5 August 2020

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The poisoning death of a young engineer and the silence of the young woman accused present an interesting dilemma for the constabulary. Sloane and Crosby are assigned the task of RE-examining the case, the evidence, the witnesses, while others try to get Lucy to break her silence. The detectives are thrown off the scent several times and spin wheels to no end. When a young French au paire is found dead in a ditch, things come into clearer view. The murderer is caught and Lucy speaks again.

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