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Overview
When Mrs. Galloway, who suffers from heart disease, finally passes away it comes as no shock to the staff at Berebury Hospital. Abel Granger's family had also been long prepared for his death that same morning. So why then has Mrs. Galloway's son called in Detective Inspector Sloan to investigate, and why is Abel Granger's doctor so uncomfortable? The only thing that seems to link the two patients is the Cardigan Protocol, a drug trial being carried out for Gilroy's, a pharmaceutical company. This, along with the unexplained disappearance of the doctor in charge of the drug trials and the surprising break-in of the Gilroy's headquarters by a group of animal rights activists, leads D. I. Sloan to suspect that something much more sinister than coincidence is afoot.Editorials
Library Journal
In this latest Detective Inspector Sloan procedural, Sloan investigates the deaths of an elderly woman who took part in a drug test and the unexpected suicide of a doctor connected with the test. Quality writing from a practiced hand.Kirkus Reviews
The Cardigan Protocol, the drug trial that Dr. Paul Meggie's been running for Gilroy Pharmaceuticals, has clearly gone out of control. One of the patients on the placebo has died, leaving a family howling malpractice; so has one of the patients on the real drug; and so has Dr. Meggie himself, an apparent suicide not quite good enough to fool Inspector C.D. Sloan and his canny pathologist. As he struggles to dope out the connections between the Cardigan tests at St. Ninian's and Berebury Hospitals and the lower-order experiments that have earned Gilroy the wrath of animal-rights activists, Sloan (A Going Concern, 1994, etc., etc.) sees the motives for Dr. Meggie's murder mushroom to a truly alarming extent.As clever and literate as ever, though even Aird loyalists will need a Ouija board to pluck the culprit from the drug-trial shallows.
Book Details
Published
February 1, 1997
Publisher
Bath, Avon, England : Chivers Press ; 1997.
Pages
206
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780783819679