Name: The Body Politic

Author: Catherine Aird
Year: 1990
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Mystery

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0330313371		 From CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird: Caught between an angry government and his employer's profits, an engineer conveniently dies . . . Can Calleshire's greatest detective bring the guilty to justice?

What's the value of one British engineer when stacked against the exclusive mining rights to a rare, strategically important, and extremely valuable mineral?
 
The British-based Anglo-Lassertan Mineral Company finds itself in hot water when one of its engineers, Alan Ottershaw, hits and kills a pedestrian while driving in a foreign country--a nation that happens to be "on the sunny side of the Iron Curtain," with thick veins of the strategically important mineral querremitte. This particular country has draconian laws about killings, so Ottershaw is relieved when he's whisked back to Calleshire before the foreign police can throw him in jail. But now that the Lassertan government is threatening to strip the mining company of its most valuable contract, poor Mr. Ottershaw begins to worry about his safety--and when he dies suddenly in a war reenactment, it looks like a very convenient solution to everyone's problem.
 
A little too convenient, if you ask Calleshire detective C. D. Sloan, who, along with his bumbling sidekick, Constable Crosby, must investigate the death. It seems that nearly everyone in town would prefer to forget that the Lassertan debacle ever happened--but why has a man been following around the Calleshire MP dressed as the Grim Reaper? Who has been sending death threats and live scorpions via post? Detective Sloan is on the case.
This book is part of the "Inspector Sloan" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"Learning Curve"
First published in 2016
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"Dead Heading"
First published in 2013
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"Past Tense"
First published in 2010
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"Little Knell"
First published in 2000
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"After Effects"
First published in 1996
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"Harm's Way"
First published in 1984
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"Last Respects"
First published in 1982
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"Passing Strange"
First published in 1980
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"Some Die Eloquent"
First published in 1979
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"Parting Breath"
First published in 1977
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"Slight Mourning"
First published in 1975
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"His Burial Too"
First published in 1973
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"A Late Phoenix"
First published in 1971
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"The Stately Home Murder"
First published in 1969
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"The Religious Body"
First published in 1966
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"Losing Ground"
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"Stiff News"
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"Henrietta Who?"
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Harm's Way by Catherine Aird
Dead Heading by Catherine Aird
After Effects by Catherine Aird
Losing Ground by Catherine Aird
Last Respects by Catherine Aird
The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird
Slight Mourning by Catherine Aird
Some Die Eloquent by Catherine Aird
His Burial Too by Catherine Aird
Passing Strange by Catherine Aird
Parting Breath by Catherine Aird
Little Knell by Catherine Aird
Past Tense by Catherine Aird
Stiff News by Catherine Aird
Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird
The Religious Body by Catherine Aird
A Late Phoenix by Catherine Aird
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