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Last Respects
(1982)(The tenth book in the Sloan and Crosby / Calleshire Chronicles series)
A novel by Catherine Aird
In this C. D. Sloan Mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, a body is found in the river - but the victim didn't drown.
When local fisherman Horace Boller decided to row his boat out on the tidal backwash of the river one morning, he couldn't have meant to land a catch like this. What he ended up with was a body floating on the river's surface. And judging by the state of the corpse, the death was not a recent one.
The strange thing is, the coroner report indicates that drowning was not the cause of death. It's up to the intrepid C. D. Sloan - and his markedly less intrepid assistant, Constable Crosby - to investigate.
Along the way, Calleshire's most successful pair of puzzle-solving policemen will contend with a handful of additional strange deaths, befuddling municipal building codes, an antiquarian with interesting views on local history, and a fisherman who has his own motivation for helping (or perhaps hindering) the investigation. Can C. D. Sloan get to the bottom of this waterlogged killing?
Genre: Mystery
When local fisherman Horace Boller decided to row his boat out on the tidal backwash of the river one morning, he couldn't have meant to land a catch like this. What he ended up with was a body floating on the river's surface. And judging by the state of the corpse, the death was not a recent one.
The strange thing is, the coroner report indicates that drowning was not the cause of death. It's up to the intrepid C. D. Sloan - and his markedly less intrepid assistant, Constable Crosby - to investigate.
Along the way, Calleshire's most successful pair of puzzle-solving policemen will contend with a handful of additional strange deaths, befuddling municipal building codes, an antiquarian with interesting views on local history, and a fisherman who has his own motivation for helping (or perhaps hindering) the investigation. Can C. D. Sloan get to the bottom of this waterlogged killing?
Genre: Mystery
Used availability for Catherine Aird's Last Respects
Hardback Editions
September 1982 : UK Hardback

Title: Last Respects (The Crime Club)
Author(s): Catherine Aird
ISBN: 0-00-231410-X / 978-0-00-231410-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
Availability: Amazon UK
September 1982 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
1987 : UK Mass Market Paperback

Title: Last Respects
Author(s): Catherine Aird
ISBN: 0-00-223273-1 / 978-0-00-223273-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
Availability: Amazon
April 1984 : USA Mass Market Paperback
May 1984 : USA Mass Market Paperback
September 1984 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
June 2019 : Audio CD
June 2019 : Audio CD
June 2019 : MP3 CD
June 2019 : USA Audio edition
June 2019 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Last Respects
Author(s): Catherine Aird
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Availability: Amazon CA
Kindle Editions
June 2015 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition