A Late Phoenix

Catherine Aird

1971

Decades ago, Germans bombed the village at Lamb Lane. But now redevelopment is under way. During the excavation, a workman finds the skeleton of a pregnant girl with a bullet lodged in her spine. The trail is definitely stone cold when C. D. Sloan takes on the case.

• C.D. Sloan (Fictitious character)
• C. D. Sloan (Fictitious character)
• Police
• Fiction
• England, fiction
• Sloan, c. d. (fictitious character), fiction
• Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
• Detective and mystery stories
• English fiction
• Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural