Little Knell, Catherine Aird
Little Knell, Catherine Aird
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Little Knell

Author: Catherine Aird

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 4 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2020

Synopsis

Colonel Caversham, once prominent in the British colonial service, has died and left his large collection of artifacts to the local Calleshire museum. Included in those artifacts is a three-thousand-year-old Egyptain mummy and case, now the responsibility of one Mr. Fixby-Smith, curator of the Greatorex Museum.What should be a simple moving job, however, is complicated by the fact that the local coroner, Mr. Granville Locombe-Stableford, will allow no body—no matter how ancient—to be moved without his consent.Which is how Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan is dragged away from his more pressing concern with the burgeoning local drug problem and sent to the museum to sort out egos and red tape. When the lid of the mummy case is raised, however, what greets the coroner, curator, and inspector is not what they expect.Instead of the remains of the ancient Rodoheptah, they find the body of an unidentified young woman who has been dead only a matter of days …

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 Melissa on February 25, 2018

Enjoyed. A mixture of old and new deaths: when the sarcophagus turns out not to have an ancient Egyptian mummy, but instead a woman dead only a week ... Inspector Sloan needs to figure out who she was and why she died; as well as figure out what is going on with the drugs trade in Calleshire. And in......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on February 26, 2021

Perhaps it's because I've been reading Aird's Sloan/Crosby books like Pringles, one after the other, due to being housebound of late, but I am confused by Aird's Little Knell on two particular plot points--one, that she has resurrected a character she quite decidedly killed off in #4 and refers to h......more

Goodreads review by Joy on September 14, 2020

The picturesque locations of a curio collection in an old manor and a seaside animal rescue foundation are woven into a plot to hide illegal drug income. Somebody who doesn't know Inspector Sloan tries to bribe him. I was initially put off by the team from the moving company, so it took me a while t......more

Goodreads review by RC on July 15, 2021

The opening gambit reminded me a bit of some of Aaron Elkins’ “substitution of bones for bones” device he uses to engage his character, anthropologist Gideon Oliver. While I am drawn to mysteries that take place in library stacks, museums, and archaeological sites, I found Aird’s device of hauling i......more

Goodreads review by Yibbie on March 02, 2025

A mummy, in a mystery by a favorite author, what could be better! Unfortunately, I just couldn't find any of that feeling of ancient mystery that an Egyptian mummy lost promised. All the other plots swallowed that up and made any reference to him seem incongruous. It wasn't a bad mystery, but it la......more

Quotes

“Drugs, laundered money, extortion, and, of course, murder concern the delightful Inspector C. D. Sloan…in this intricately plotted police procedural…Sloan is the kind of down-to-earth detective who makes you glad you aren’t a criminal: gently persistent and full of wry observations, no superman but all the more believable because of that.” Publishers Weekly

“Aird transports readers to the small British market town of Berebury in Calleshire, domain of Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan, for another lively adventure in an undervalued series…Supporting characters provide much of the entertainment here; the bumbling Crosby proves endearing, as do, in their disparate ways, semi-thug Wayne Goddard and affected museum curator Marcus Fixby-Smith. For those who like quiet British procedurals, with the emphasis more on wit and sly turns of phrase than on mean streets, Aird’s series is sure to please.” Booklist

“Inspiring and entertaining.” Library Journal

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