Catherine Aird Books In Order – The Complete List

Catherine Aird, aka Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, is a famous British author known for her engaging mystery novels, especially her Inspector Sloan series, which are widely celebrated for their clever plotting, intriguing characters, and dry wit.

Here are the Catherine Aird books in order. The chronological order is the same as the publication order for each Inspector Sloan novel.

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Sloan and Crosby Books in Publication Order

aka the Chronicles of Calleshire Series

1. The Religious Body, 1966
2. Henrietta Who?, 1968
3. The Stately Home Murder, 1969 (aka The Complete Steel)
4. A Late Phoenix, 1970
5. His Burial Too, 1973
6. Slight Mourning, 1975
7. Parting Breath, 1977
8. Some Die Eloquent, 1979
9. Passing Strange, 1980
10. Last Respects, 1982
11. Harm’s Way, 1984
12. A Dead Liberty, 1986
13. The Body Politic, 1990
14. A Going Concern, 1993
15. Injury Time, 1994
16. After Effects, 1996
17. Stiff News, 1998
18. Little Knell, 2000
19. Amendment Of Life, 2002
20. A Hole in One, 2005
21. Losing Ground, 2007
22. Past Tense, 2010
23. Dead Heading, 2013
24. Learning Curve, 2016
25. Inheritance Tracks, 2019
26. Constable Country, 2023

Standalone Novels in Order of Publication

• A Most Contagious Game, 1967

Anthologies and Stort Story Collections in Order of Publication

• The Second Catherine Aird Collection, 1994
• The Third Catherine Aird Collection, 1997
• Chapter and Hearse: And Other Mysteries, 2003 (includes short stories in the Inspector Slaon & Crosby series)
• Last Writes, 2014 (includes a story in the Inspector Sloan & Crosby series)

Short Stories in Order of Publication

• Grave Import, 1996 (in the anthology Perfectly Criminal)
• Like To Die, 1997 in the anthology Malice Domestic 6)
• Handsel Monday in Past Poisons, 1998 (in Past Poisons)
• The Man Who Rowed for the Shore, 1998 (in Murder On Deck)
• Gold Frankincense and Murder, 2000 (in the Christmas collection The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries)
• Cold Comfort, 2001 (in Murder Through the Ages: A Bumper Anthology of Historical Mysteries)

Nonfiction Books in Publication Order

• Mystery Voices: Interviews with British Crime Writers, 1991
• The Oxford Companion To Crime And Mystery Writing, 1999

Who Is Inspector Sloan?

Detective Inspector Sloan works in the fictional Calleshire Constabulary, at a rural police force in the West Midlands of England.

Sloan is a rather quiet and average-looking man who has a dry wit and is quite methodical in his approach to work. He is also quite a shrewd investigator who has a strong ability to see patterns and connections that others might not notice. This helps him solve even quite difficult cases.

He works closely with his aide, Detective Constable Crosby, who is a young and rather impulsive police officer. The two have completely opposite characters who actually complement each other. By combining Crosby’s keen intuition and quick thinking with Sloan’s rather analytical approach to things, they make quite a good team.

Catherine Aird Biography – About the Author

Catherine Aird is the pseudonym for the author Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. Born in 1930 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, she is a British crime fiction writer of well over 25 crime novels, best known for her Inspector Sloan mystery series.She calls this The Chronicles Of Calleshire, which is the place where detective Sloan and his partner, Crosby, investigate murder after murder in each book.

She grew up in Huddersfield where she also went to school. After the war, she moved to a village in East Kent. Because she got sick, she had to stay in bed for quite a while. After recovering, she went to work at her father’s medical practice near Canterbury, Kent. She has an honorary master’s degree from the University of Kent.

She published her first book, The Religious Body, in 1966. This was the year she became a published author. At the same time, she joined an became the head of a writer’s group who loved detective stories.

Over the years, she received several awards and recognitions for her writing, including the WA Golden Handcuffs Award for lifetime achievement and the Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre, in 2015.

Catherine Airs is best known for writing a mix of cozy mysteries and police procedurals, in the veins of Martha Grimes and M.C. Beaton. The most popular Catherine Aird books are The Chronicles of Calleshire. These stories take you through the fictional County of Calleshire, England where Detective C.D. Sloan and his helper, Detective Constable Crosby work together to solve cases.

In addition, for her services to the Girl Guide Association, in 1988 she became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Currently, Catherine Aird lives in a cozy village named Sturry, in Kent.

Many of Catherine Aird’s books have been translated into several languages and are widely read and loved worldwide.