Detective Inspector Bill Slider is not pleased to be called out to a London fish-and-chip shop on what seems to be a public health matter - a severed finger found in a bag of fries. Fifteen-year-old Cheryl Makepeace, the customer who buys the fries, is none too pleased either! But when the rest of the body turns up in garbage bags behind the store, it sets Slider off on one of the most intriguing murder investigations of his career. Who was the victim, and what brought him to Dave's Fish and Chip Bar one lonely night? Owner ...
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider is not pleased to be called out to a London fish-and-chip shop on what seems to be a public health matter - a severed finger found in a bag of fries. Fifteen-year-old Cheryl Makepeace, the customer who buys the fries, is none too pleased either! But when the rest of the body turns up in garbage bags behind the store, it sets Slider off on one of the most intriguing murder investigations of his career. Who was the victim, and what brought him to Dave's Fish and Chip Bar one lonely night? Owner Ronnie Slaughter says he knows nothing, but Slider has his doubts. Clues point in bewildering directions and even send Slider delving into the past life of his own recently deceased boss, Detective Superintendent "George" Dickson. Slider respected Dickson and he doesn't much care for the new boss, the fanatically efficient "Mad Ivan" Barrington. Why did Barrington dislike Dickson? What is the mystery about the stakeout they once did together? Why is it that through the murk of the present case Slider keeps getting glimpses of an altogether different and more complex problem? The more Slider learns, the less comfortable he feels. Add a catastrophic hitch in his already blighted personal life as he tries to balance his love for the violinist, Joanna, with his duty to his wife, Irene, and it makes for trying private and professional times for one of the most original and appealing of fictional sleuths. Death to Go is the best yet from an extraordinarily accomplished writer of crime fiction.
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