A Most Contagious Game, Catherine Aird
A Most Contagious Game, Catherine Aird
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A Most Contagious Game

Author: Catherine Aird

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/25/2020

Synopsis

When a London businessman retires early and buys a Tudor mansion, he’s quite surprised—and perhaps even a little pleased (retirement being pretty boring)—to find a skeleton hidden in a secret room in the house. The skeleton appears to be more than 150 years old, so the local police leave it to the homeowner to solve the mystery. The police are much more interested in solving a local, modern murder. Somehow the two deaths are connected. First published in 1967, this is Aird’s only non-Inspector Sloan mystery, and a complete triumph.

About Catherine Aird

Catherine Aird is the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan. She holds an honorary MA degree from the University of Kent and was made a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. She has been awarded the CWA Golden Handcuffs award for lifetime achievement and the Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime’s contribution to the genre in 2015.

About Derek Perkins

A native of the United Kingdom, Audie and AudioFile Earphones Award winner Derek Perkins's audiobook narration skills are augmented by a knowledge of three foreign languages and a facility with accents. He has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ivonne on April 03, 2022

I have read every single one of Catherine Aird’s C.D. Sloan mysteries, and, with Aird now in her 90s, I didn’t expect any more novels. You can imagine my delight when I discovered that Aird released a stand-alone cozy mystery in 1967 (her second novel and the only one not to feature Inspector Sloan......more

Goodreads review by Miglė on January 29, 2020

How do you solve a murder that's 150 years old (and everyone is dead anyway)? Interesting premise that was unfolding rather slowly, in a cosy mystery setting. But then again, maybe the unfolding was too slow and maybe the setting was too cosy. Not a drop of blood and not a single plot twist! Maybe if......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 08, 2008

nonseries In its own way, A Most Contagious Game reminded me a bit of Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time. Both have elements of historical fiction, and both involve the solving of murders from the past. Tey's hero thinks he has solved the mystery of who really killed the princes in the tower (viz Richa......more

Goodreads review by CLM on January 23, 2008

This is a huge favorite in my family, resulting from our devotion (literally) to Edmund Campion and Nicholas Owen (my nephew is named after him) and is generally considered to be Aird's best book as well as a classic mystery. Happily, it is back in print. The story begins with a retired couple, the H......more

Goodreads review by Linda on August 27, 2011

I do enjoy the style of British mysteries. I think I find them comforting. This solves a 150 year old murder of a teenage boy and new murder of a young married woman. Thomas and Dora Harding retire to Manor House of Easterbrook because of his heart health. Even though I'm not normally a history pers......more

Quotes

 “A wonderful read, and would appeal to all lovers of traditional British mysteries, and those with an interest in family research, and historical themes too.” Reviewing the Evidence

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