'Gorgeously entertaining', Daily Telegraph 'Catherine Aird is as clever a detective writer as Margery Allingham'. Times Literary Supplement' '[A] gentle, charming and distinctly mischievous fictional compendium of twenty-two original tales'. Shotsmag 'Fascinating reading showing Aird's great skills at formulating puzzles and writing amusing dialogues' Promoting Crime Fiction 'Last Writes is ingenious and witty, is full of Aird's customary relish for the written word, and is consistently entertaining as it shifts times and places, from sixteenth-century Scotland to the present day' The Dorothy L Sayers Society

Twenty-two brand new short stories which are guaranteed to delight fans and win the author many more. 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, Last Writes is a collection to curl up with and savour.
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Twenty-two brand new short stories which are guaranteed to delight.
For readers who love the traditional crime classics of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780749016272
Publisert
2015-01-22
Utgiver
Allison & Busby; Allison & Busby
Høyde
178 mm
Bredde
111 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

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Om bidragsyterne

Catherine Aird was the author of more than twenty crime novels and story collections, most of which feature Detective Inspector Sloan. She was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger for her lifetime contributions to crime fiction. She held an honorary MA from the University of Kent and was made an MBE. Apart from writing the successful Chronicles of Calleshire, she also wrote and edited a series of village histories. She passed away in 2024.