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His Burial Too (Detective Inspector Sloan, Bk 5)
His Burial Too - Detective Inspector Sloan, Bk 5 Author:Catherine Aird On the hottest day in living memory, Richard Mallory Tindall, the owner of a patent firm, does not return home to Cleete village. When a man is found crushed to death, Tindall's case goes from missing person to homicide. — In the course of solving murder cases, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan has seen all manner of ugly death. But there's... more » something particularly gruesome about this one, the body crushed beneath the marble and iron of an old Saxon church tower. With rubble blocking off access to the crime scene, no one can get close enough to inspect the body. What little evidence is available - a burned match, a black thread, an earring - doesn't bode well for a quick and easy solution.
Even the legendarily cool-headed great detective might begin to crack when a second body turns up. And then an important file goes missing from Sloan's office. How does it all connect?« less
An OK mystery, although the explanation of the locked room murder is so complicated that I sort of gave up trying to visualize how the killer set it up. Writing is pleasant, and although it's not a long book, some side trips could have been left out. Interactions between the police inspector and his rookie helper were lively and somewhat amusing. (Note: there is one character whose penchant for racist remarks may reflect the times, but would not pass muster in 2020.)