Henrietta Who?
by Catherine Aird
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Author: Catherine AirdEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-15
ISBN: 1601870183
Number of pages: 159
Publisher: Rue Morgue
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Book Review: Catherine Aird's style is omnipresent, with clear, concise writing
Summary: 5 Stars
The Rue Morgue Press, who publishes traditional mysteries from the Golden Age, presents Catherine Aird's Inspector C.D. Sloan mysteries. Aird's tales are completely fictional, from the setting (in this case Calleshire) to Catherine Aird's name, which is a pseudonym for Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in 1930 in Yorkshire, and credited her village life as a doctor's daughter, a onetime golfer, and editor/publisher of village histories as inspiration for her mysteries. As a child kidney problems waylaid her, and reading while recuperating provided the foundation for her writing style. HENRIETTA WHO? is her third book and was published in 1968.
Grace Jenkins moved to the out-of-the-way village of Larking with a baby girl and a story of a husband killed during the war. When Grace is run down by a car, the pathologist performing her autopsy discovers that she never had children and probably was never married. Young Henrietta Jenkins rushes home from college to discover that she doesn't know who she is or who her parents really were. She has only a photograph of her supposed father and medals that don't match up. To further confuse the picture, Henrietta and her beau, Bill Thorpe, see a man who she swears is the man in the photograph alive and walking down the street. But when Crosby and Sloan arrive at his home to interview him, they find him murdered:
"When they got to the back door it was ever so slightly ajar. It opened a little further at Sloan's knock, and when there was no reply to this, Sloan opened it a bit more still and put his head round. 'Anyone at home?' he called out. Cyril Jenkins was at home, all right. There was just one snag. He was dead. Very."
Catherine Aird's style is omnipresent, with clear, concise writing. She brought the mystery genre back to the "village cozy" mystery, with humor stepping forward and grisly details of the corpse fading into the background. Aird has many fans, including the New York Times reviewer Allen J. Hubin, who called this book one of the year's best.
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