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by Catherine Aird (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Hamlyn; New edition edition (23 July 1981)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0600203794
  • ISBN-13: 978-0600203797
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,133,530 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Diabetes, a slit throat, and a quarter of a million pounds, 28 May 2006
By Michele L. Worley (Kingdom of the Mouse, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Some Die Eloquent (Paperback)
Some die eloquent...
Some die wholly in half a breath
Some - give trouble for half a year.
- A Death-Bed, by Rudyard Kipling

Inspector Sloan, accompanying his wife Margaret to a prenatal examination, is rescued by Dr. Dabbe, who is about to perform an autopsy on Beatrice Wansdyke, 59-year-old chemistry teacher at a girls' school. She supposedly died of diabetes, which wouldn't interest the Berebury force, and with a quarter of a million pounds in the bank, which interests them very much. Where could she get that kind of money - legally or illegally? The bank surely isn't saying, and the police force isn't familiar with her, except for Crosby, who was sent out when she reported a lost dog a few days ago.

Her nephew George, a director of the plastics company where Miss Wansdyke did research when away from teaching, hasn't been told why the coroner ordered a post-mortem, but he's too wise in the ways of legal authority to protest. Her niece Briony, now free to quit her nurse's training and marry whenever she likes, is worried over something - her brother Nicholas, the family black sheep. Dabbe's autopsy reveals that Miss Wansdyke did indeed die of diabetes - but that doesn't mean it wasn't murder. Especially when Crosby finds the dog with its throat cut in Miss Wansdyke's back garden...

Sloan is less than keen about this case, since his wife's obstetrician is engaged to one of the suspects, and their first child is due to be born any minute. (Yes, that thread finally reaches a conclusion in this book, having started in _Slight Mourning_). The suspects cover the social spectrum, from rough-living Nicholas and his druggie friends to company director George Wansdyke and his fanatical partner Malcolm Darnley - the nature-loving bane of Traffic Division, who protests the cutting of any tree for any roadwork in the county. A good novel as well as a good mystery, as usual.
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