![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After nabbing the shooter, Slider senses that something about catching the right man is itself wrong, as wrong as his estrangement from Joanna. ![]() 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. 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. The only one who seems truly bereaved is the victim's personal servant, Arthur ``Buster'' Keaton. Within the music community, Radek was considered arrogant, vindictive and a mediocre conductor. 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. Inspector Bill Slider, last seen in Death to Go, confirms his place among those intelligent fictional British coppers whose presence guarantees a satisfying read. ![]()
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