British author
Catherine Aird, creator of Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan and a master of the village mystery, was born today in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1930. In 1966 she published her excellent first mystery,
The Religious Body (murder in a convent). Aird also is an accomplished short story writer (see
Malice Domestic 6; the
Chapter and Hearse collection).
Rue Morgue Press has reprinted a number of her books.
