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1) Fell purpose
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Bill Slider investigates when sixteen-year-old Zellah Wilding, a gifted student at an all-girls church school, is found dressed like a prostitute and dead of strangulation near London's Wormwood Scrubs prison.
2) Body line
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After wealthy doctor David Rogers turns up dead in the hallway of his home, Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into a deeper mystery and discover that nothing is as it seems when they start their investigation into the doctor's death.
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Bill Slider must work through a maze of deception to find the truth about the murder of radical left-wing journalist Phoebe Agnew.
4) Death to go
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Slider is called to a London fish-and-chips shop regarding what would seem to be a public health matter--a severed finger found in a portion of chips. But when the rest of the body is found, Slider is thrust into one of the most complicated investigations of his career.
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the suspicious disappearance of Melanie Hunter, Bill Slider questions several potential suspects when the men in Melanie's life reveal unsettling deceptions, family secrets, and an enduring pain that she hid from the outside world.
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
In London, Inspector Slider investigates the murder of a promiscuous woman, even though her husband has confessed to the crime. Slider believes the husband is innocent and is protecting her reputation.
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house, Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called upon to investigate. It appears that they have found the final resting place of fourteen-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from that same garden two decades before. With a murder twenty years in the past, this is the coldest of cold cases. Most of the suspects and principal players are now dead, and all the passion is...
8) Blood lines
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
At the BBC-TV studios in London, a music critic is found in the men's room with his throat slashed minutes before he was due to appear on a show. Sergeant Mills sifts through the suspects, ranging from a jealous wife to a vindictive musician.
9) Hard going
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The murder comes--much to Slider family's disgust--during his week off, saving him from the horrors of a trip to the shopping centre with his two older children. The late Mr Lionel Bygod, who looks, to all intents and purposes, like an old-fashioned sort of gentleman, has been bashed in the head with a bronze statue, in what Doc Cameron describes as 'our old friend the Frenzied Attack'. It soon emerges that Mr Bygod was a philanthropist, well-known...
10) Dear departed
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Time Warner
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"It's Detective Inspector Bill Slider's day off and he had hoped to have some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancee. But a woman's body is found in the park and he finds himself back to work sooner than he expected. At first glance, it looks as though the woman is the latest victim of the "Park Killer." But it doesn't take Slider and his partner Atherton long to establish that someone else was trying to pass the killing off as the handiwork...
11) Dying fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The woman lies dead at the foot of the stairs. It's obvious what happened: she tripped and fell. But PC D'Arblay, called to the dilapidated West London villa by an anonymous tip-off, can't shake the feeling that's exactly what someone wants him to think. It was the deep head wound that killed her - but her dying fall left no blood trail, so what was it she hit her head on? DCI Slider, of the Shepherd's Bush murder squad, is soon convinced D'Arblay's...
12) Star fall
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The post-Christmas lull is officially over.... The deceased is antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV, stabbed to death in his luxurious West London home. Egerton's partner, the granite-faced John Lavender, found the body; did he also do the deed? Or was it a burglary gone wrong? As Slider and his team investigate, none of the facts seem to fit. And it soon becomes clear that the much-loved, charming Mr Egerton wasn't as universally...
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fitness trainer Erik Lingoss is found dead in his west London flat, his head smashed by one of his own dumbbells. His heartlessly-dumped girlfriend, blood on her clothes and hands, is the prime suspect. She had means, opportunity, and motive. But is the case as clear-cut as it seems? Handsome Erik Lingoss had clients in high places; and he seemed to engender powerful emotions. If it was a crime of passion, there was plenty of that to go round: love...
14) Headlong
Author
Series
Bill Slider mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman's past. An embittered ex-wife. A discarded mistress. A frustrated...
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