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As I've mentioned before, Catherine Aird's Inspector Sloan (and Constable Crosby) series is one of my top five favorite series - one of the very few series that I have to read while I'm alone since I'll laugh out loud without warning.

The Stately Home Murder (apa The Complete Steel) is the third in the series and has dropped to £0.90 at Kindle UK - one of the rare sizable Open Road price drops in the UK. The webpage also indicates this is a "Rue Morgue Classic British Myster[y]" - I don't know if this means Open Road has picked up the rights to use the US "Rue Morgue" publisher name, or has just created one of their own, but in any case, the book will be the same .

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00USNENQ6

Spoiler:

In 1970s England, a broke nobleman and a body in a suit of armor present a puzzling mystery in this witty novel by a Diamond Dagger Award winner.

It is the early 1970s, and times are tough in the upper reaches of British society. To survive the changing times, the Earl of Ornum has done the previously unthinkable and opened his estate to wandering tourists. One day, a hyperactive little boy and his family are roaming Ornum House delightedly. The curious tyke sees a full suit of armor and lifts the visor . . . only to see a face staring out at him.

As Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan soon finds, the man in the suit of armor is dead—and there’s a slew of suspects waiting to be interviewed. Was it the ditzy duchess? The disappointing nephew? One of the servants? The earl himself? It’s up to Sloan and his wisecracking sidekick, Detective Constable Crosby, to find out before the murderer strikes again.