Catherine aird mystery writer paretsky

Editor Rosemary Herbert has brought together 666 articles--written by such authorities as Edward D. Hoch, Sara Paretsky, and the late Julian Symons--that will.!

Catherine Aird

English novelist (1930–2024)

Kinn Hamilton McIntosh,[1]MBE (20 June 1930 – 21 December 2024), known professionally as Catherine Aird, was an English novelist.

This locked room mystery comes at the suggestion of JJ, author-in-chief of The Invisible Event, for which many thanks (I think).

  • This locked room mystery comes at the suggestion of JJ, author-in-chief of The Invisible Event, for which many thanks (I think).
  • Editor Rosemary Herbert has brought together 666 articles--written by such authorities as Edward D. Hoch, Sara Paretsky, and the late Julian.
  • Editor Rosemary Herbert has brought together 666 articles--written by such authorities as Edward D. Hoch, Sara Paretsky, and the late Julian Symons--that will.
  • Gathers mystery stories by Ruth Rendell, Catherine Aird, Simon Brett, Sara Paretsky, HRF Keating, and Dick Francis.
  • Similarly, Catherine Aird's The Religious Body involves topics of gender, war, and mystery.

    • She was the author of more than twenty crime fictionnovels and several collections of short stories. Her witty, literate, and deftly plotted novels straddle the "cozy" and "police procedural" genres and are somewhat similar in flavour to those of Martha Grimes, Caroline Graham, M.

    C. Beaton, Margaret Yorke, and Pauline Bell. Aird was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 1981, and is a recipient of the 2015 Cartier Diamond Dagger award.[2]

    Life and career

    Aird was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire in England.

    She attended the Waverley School and Greenhead High School, both in Huddersfield. As a young adult, she was bedridden due to a serious illness.[3] Upon recovery, she worked as practice manager and dispenser for her father's medical practice in