Talk about having your world fall apart without warning: a young college student named Henrietta Jenkins comes back to her English village home when her mother is the victim of a hit-and-run driver. But the police tell her that the dead woman could not possibly have been her real mother. And, to make matters worse, the "accident" was no accident - the woman was murdered. And her house has been broken into - the thief taking any papers having to do with Henrietta's birth and parentage. Which leaves a devastated Henrietta to wonder: Henrietta Who?
Aird, who is still writing new mysteries featuring her detective, Inspector C. D. Sloan, is a classicist, and the mystery presented in "Henrietta Who?" is fairly clued. It's a terrific mystery, and, if you have never met Inspector Sloan, or his bureaucratic boss, Superintendent Leeyes, or his less-than-talented assistant, Detective Constable Crosby, this is a good way to meet them.
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