Reviews for Chapter and hearse

The average rating for Chapter and hearse based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-09 00:00:00 Carl Ford This is an excellent collection of short stories. Many of them feature Sloan and Crosby, Catherine Aird's series detectives but others are historical. All have the author's trademark humour and many have a neat twist at the end just when you think you've worked out what's going on. Not all stories include a murder, though many do. I particularly liked the last story in this collection 'Dummy Run' which involves Crosby in a case of trespass which proves he isn't as stupid as he sometimes appears to be to Sloan. Another favourite of mine is 'The Trouble and Strife' in which someone goes missing and the solution is not at all what it appears at first sight to be. If you want something to read with a cup of coffee or to pick up and put down in odd moments during the day these stories are ideal as each can be read in a few minutes and will leave you with a sense of satisfaction and generally a smile at the vagaries of human nature and the way the story has worked out.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-11 00:00:00 Eric Cymbalista Catherine Aird is one of my favorite authors; I've read all of her books at least once.  However, I've been having a hard time finding this particular book that is a group of short stories by la Aird.  Some of these stories have just a very few pages and some are longer.  Some are about the 16th century and others are of more recent vintage.    Detective Inspector Sloan and his loyal partner, DC Crosby, are alive-and-well in some of these stories.  One of my favorite quips, when Sloan decides not to contradict his boss, he reminds the readers that 'he's having a care for his pension.'  These stories show just how extraordinary the author's knowledge of Anglican Church history, Shakespeare, the Bible, ancient English history really is.  She's often witty and always intelligent in the cases she persues with the reader.