The Religious Body

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On their part the community of nuns at the Convent of St. Anselm in the village of Cullingoak were equally ignorant of the ways of the police force. When murder brought them together each institution found it had much to learn about the other. Interviewing half a hundred black-habited Sisters as potential suspects for murder was no simple task, especially when Sloan found that, to him, one nun looked very much like the next.

The Religious Body is a thoroughly intriguing British mystery novel which marks the debut of a stylish newcomer. Miss Aird combines sound plotting with well-developed background atmosphere, and a nice sense of character, especially as revealed in the sardonic Inspector Sloan and his amiably brash assistant, Crosby.

For my parents, with love

“What I want to know is:

One—who is the criminal?

Two—how did he (or she) do it?”

—Ernest the Policeman, in The Toytown Mystery by S. G. Hulme Beaman.

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