By Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The brand-new invoice Slider secret - David Rogers used to be a physician, good-looking, fascinating and rich. He lived the way of life of a consultant – dear outfits, most sensible eating places, unique clubs – till someone killed him within the hallway of his gorgeous million-plus-pound house. but if invoice Slider and his company are thrown into the secret, they quickly observe that not anything is because it turns out, for although David’s girlfriends are lots, none of them can inform Slider something approximately the place he labored or what precisely he did . . .
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Anything in the bathroom? ’ ‘Door closed and no sign of disturbance,’ said Bailey. ‘We’ll collect the contents and send them to you, in case they’re significant, but it doesn’t look as though drugs were the object. Otherwise – damp towels, wet shower-tray, damp toothbrush. ’ The other room on this floor was set up as a study, with a desk bearing a computer. The drawers of the desk were also standing open, but again, there was no sign of rifling. And on the top floor were two more bedrooms and a bathroom, minimally furnished and untouched.
Copyright © 2010 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. All rights reserved. The moral right of the author has been asserted. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. Body line. – (A Bill Slider mystery) 1. Slider, Bill (Fictitious character)–Fiction. 2. Murder–Investigation–Fiction. 3. Police–England– London–Fiction. 4. Detective and mystery stories. I. Title II. 9’14-dc22 ISBN-13: 978-0-7278-6957-9 (cased) ISBN-13: 978-1-84751-301-4 (trade paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-7801-0002-9 (e-book) Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to living persons is purely coincidental.
2. Murder–Investigation–Fiction. 3. Police–England– London–Fiction. 4. Detective and mystery stories. I. Title II. 9’14-dc22 ISBN-13: 978-0-7278-6957-9 (cased) ISBN-13: 978-1-84751-301-4 (trade paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-7801-0002-9 (e-book) Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to living persons is purely coincidental. This ebook produced by Palimpsest Book Production Limited, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland.