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ISBN: 0553204955

ISBN13: 9780553204957

Passing Strange

Name: Passing Strange by Catherine Aird
Item: Passing Strange
Rating: 4
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(Book #9 in the Inspector Sloan Series)

By Catherine Aird

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Book Overview

Things had gone wrong from the very beginning at the Almstone Flower Show, including a missing fortune teller. But events take a decidedly macabre turn when the fortune teller is found and Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby arrive to investigate a murder for which there seems no means, no motive, and no opportunity. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0553204955

ISBN13:9780553204957

Release Date:January 1982

Publisher:Bantam Books

Length:175 Pages

Weight:0.24 lbs.

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Rated 4 stars
Passing Strange by Catherine Aird

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 14, 2009

Another cozy British mystery from Catherine Aird. "Passing Strange" is a story from her Inspector C.D. Sloane series about the bucolic English countryside and the murders that occur for a host of unusual reasons. This time, Inspector Sloane tackles the murder of the county nurse at a Horticultural Society Flower Show in the village of Almstone. Clues include a possible inheritance, a question of identification, a drunk...

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Rated 4 stars
Verrry, verrry British this one!

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 5, 2003

This is a perfect little British mystery. We have a village flower show, the British firm of Terlingham, Terlingham and Owlet and loads of tea and ploughman's lunches. In this sparkler the village nurse/midwife is found murdered behind her fortune teller's tent at the flower show. Who would want to kill harmless, well-liked Nurse Cooper? Sloan and Crosby are sent to the village to discover the murderer. It all seems to...

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Death at the flower show

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 28, 2002

My story being done,She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange;'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:She wished she had not heard it...- _Othello, The Moor of Venice_ by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene 3Like Desdemona, Joyce Cooper was strangled, but the similarity appears to end there. Far from being the beautiful victim of a jealous rage, District Nurse Cooper was...

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