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: 10/24/2020

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 (1930–2024) was the author of more than twenty books of detective mysteries and three collections of short stories, most of which feature Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and Detective Constable W. E. Crosby. Aird held an honorary master’s degree from the University of Kent and was appointed an MBE in 1998. In recognition of her significant contribution to crime writing she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger in 2015.

About Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins is a professional narrator and voice actor. He has earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, as well as numerous Society of Voice Arts nominations. AudioFile magazine named him a Best Voice consecutively in 2014, 2015, and 2016. 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.

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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