Bare Essentials: A Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan Mystery

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Summary: The case of the unhealthy health farm...
Review: This audio edition, narrated by Edward Raleigh, is a small, unabridged stories cross-section of the short story collection _Injury Time_. I prefer Robin Bailey's narration for C.D. Sloan mysteries, but he, alas, is no longer with us, and Raleigh is quite good.

The title story, "Bare Essentials", has Sloan, Crosby, and the rest of the murder enquiry team at Berebury's local health farm. Mrs. Culshaw, who gained great riches and a lot of weight in commercials for Barclay's biscuits as a little girl, was trapped in the Hot Room and roasted alive - 'kebabbed', in Dr. Dabbe's words. Her husband, a Jack Sprat with a failed firm married to this rich woman, had motive - but also a cast-iron alibi, being out on the golf course with the pro when she died. How could he have done it? And if he didn't, who did and how?