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Here are seventeen new short stories which are guaranteed to delight Catherine Aird's already established fans and win her many more. For those who have come to love Aird's novels, such as "Stiff News" and "Little Knell", "Chapter and Hearse" is a gift. For the indefatigable detective Inspector Sloan reappears in many of these stories with his sidekick Crosby. But there are also new characters to be met, such as the mysterious Malcolm Venables of the Secret Service. Full of delicious twists and turns, "Chapter and Hearse" is a collection to curl up with and savour. 'Catherine Aird is as clever a detective writer as Margery Allingham' - "Times Literary Supplement". [via]