Grave Music: An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery (Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries) [Hardcover]

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (Author)

Book Description

Series: Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries | Publication Date: May 1995

Slider and Joanna's on-again, off-again romance is off when murder at the Royal London Philharmonica throws them together--in this droll, beguiling police procedural, the fourth in the series by "one of the best of the British mystery mavens" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

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From Publishers Weekly

Inspector Bill Slider, last seen in Death to Go, confirms his place among those intelligent fictional British coppers whose presence guarantees a satisfying read. After Sir Stefan Radek, conductor of the Royal London Philharmonic, is fatally shot during a rehearsal, Slider suspects this case will be a "domestic," resolved by looking into the widowed maestro's personal life. Within the music community, Radek was considered arrogant, vindictive and a mediocre conductor. The only one who seems truly bereaved is the victim's personal servant, Arthur "Buster" Keaton. Slider, recently abandoned by both his wife and his lover Joanna, a Philharmonic violinist, probes the affairs of Radek's daughter, Fay Coleraine, and is sufficiently charmed to root for her innocence. Fay's husband, however, a solicitor who is (at most) no more honest than he needs to be, and their son, who is, according to Keaton, "turning out wild," make credible suspects. After nabbing the shooter, Slider senses that something about catching the right man is itself wrong, as wrong as his estrangement from Joanna. To the remaining question-Can the fallible man put things, personal and professional, right?-Harrod-Eagles offers an intricate, credible reply.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

If your mystery readers have yet to meet British Inspector Bill Slider and Company, it's time they do. Though readers may guess the murderer early on in this fourth in the series, his police cohorts, and his violinist love, Joanna, are among the most appealing cast in recent memory. Their relationships, the music world setting, and the clever dialog (with blessedly fewer puns than in previous works) recommend this to all collections. Start with the first in the series, Orchestrated Death (LJ 1/92).
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Scribner; 1st Scribner Ed edition (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684800462
• ISBN-13: 978-0684800462
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,979,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love Bill Slider!, December 30, 2002

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S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grave Music: An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery (Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Quick, those of you who like English Procedural mysteries. You will not be sorry if you take up this series. I love Bill Slider. He is really appealing and a good detective too. In this book Slider is trying to adjust to life without his wife and two children, and also without his lady love Joanna. He isn't handling single life that well, but a murder occurs that takes his mind off his personal problems. The victim in this story was very unlikeable, but it happens that he is the conductor for Joanna's orchestra, so at least Bill gets to see her in connection with the case. Before the murderer is discovered, Bill Slider finds a whole closet full of secrets in the victim's closet. Ms Harrod-Eagles keeps you guessing until the end with this one. Another good installment in the series.