Overview

In this ninth outing for the likeable detective, Inspector Bill Slider is called to cope with a disfigured corpse grotesquely left in a children's playground. His enquiries plunge him into the shadow world behind the fashionable facade of Shepherd's Bush, among the victims of the Welfare State and the crime barons who prey on them; a world where no-one is who he says he is, and lying to the police is second nature. Slider's thankless task is to convince the witnesses, against all available evidence, that honesty really is the best policy. And with his lover Joanna away, fate seems suddenly determined to strew his private life with temptations...

ISBN-13

9780751532272

ISBN-10

0751532274

Weight

0.45 Pounds

Dimensions

4.29 x 6.97 x 1.06 In

Edition

1st Edition

Format

-

Language

English

Pages

288 pages

Publisher

Time Warner Paperbacks

Published On

2002-12-05



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