Chapter and Hearse

"A wealthy businessman has died under suspicious circumstances. A Christmas with the family provides more drama than could be expected. A girl accuses the hospital of killing her grandmother. In sixteenth-century Scotland, the death of a clansman is not what it first appears." "From the investigations of Inspector C.D. Sloan and his enthusiastic, all-too-constant, but not very helpful sidekick Constable Crosby of the Calleshire C.I.D. to the travails of Henry Tyler of the Foreign Office, from the mysterious Malcolm Venables of the Secret Service to Sheriff Rhuaraidh Macmillan of sixteenth-century Scotland, Catherine Aird's latest collection of literate tales takes the reader through the full range of crime and punishment."--Jacket.