Order of Sloan and Crosby Books
Sloan and Crosby (aka the Calleshire Chronicles) is a series of crime fiction/mystery novels by English novelist Catherine Aird. “Sloan” is Detective Inspector Christopher Dennis Sloan (aka “Seedy”). Sloan is married and enjoys growing roses in his spare time. “Crosby” is his hapless sidekick – Detective Constable William Crosby. The series is set in Calleshire, a fictional county based on Kent.
Catherine Aird began the Sloan and Crosby series in 1966 with the novel The Religious Body. The series is currently ongoing, with a new novel added to the series every few years. There are currently over 20 novels in the Calleshire Chronicles series. Below is a list of Catherine Aird’s Sloan and Crosby books in order of when they were first released (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Sloan and Crosby Books
| The Religious Body | (1966) |    |
| Henrietta Who? | (1968) | |
| The Stately Home Murder / The Complete Steel | (1969) | |
| A Late Phoenix | (1971) | |
| His Burial Too | (1973) | |
| Slight Mourning | (1975) | |
| Parting Breath | (1977) | |
| Some Die Eloquent | (1979) | |
| Passing Strange | (1980) | |
| Last Respects | (1982) | |
| Harm's Way | (1984) | |
| A Dead Liberty | (1986) | |
| The Body Politic | (1990) | |
| A Going Concern | (1993) | |
| Injury Time | (1995) | |
| After Effects | (1996) | |
| Stiff News | (1999) | |
| Little Knell | (2000) | |
| Amendment of Life | (2002) | |
| Hole in One | (2005) | |
| Losing Ground | (2007) | |
| Past Tense | (2010) | |
| Dead Heading | (2013) | |
| Learning Curve | (2016) | |
| Inheritance Tracks | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Sloan and Crosby Collections
| Last Writes | (2014) | |
Note: The novel The Complete Steel was also published under the title of The Stately Home Murder.
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Sloan and Crosby Synopsis: In The Religious Body by Catherine Aird (book 1 in the Calleshire Chronicles), Inspector Sloan must find out who could have thrown a nun named Sister Anne down a set of cellar stairs. The witnesses are over 50 discreet, identical-looking nuns – each with an assumed name and a past secular life.
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