All are narrated by Terry Wale
#1. Orchestrated Death [1991], 10 hours 7 mins
(This title from cassette tapes does betray it's origin, but the narration
is always clear - if a little muted and hollow sounding sometimes in the
the first few parts). Detective Inspector Bill Slider - middle-class,
middle-aged, and, according to his partner Atherton, menopausal - is never
going to make it to the Yard. Passed over for promotion again, saddled with
an uncommodious wife and a ranch-style executive dog-kennel in Ruislip,
the last thing he needs in his life, or on his patch, is an unidentifiable,
naked female corpse. As he wrestles with an investigation in which the only
clues are a priceless Stradivarius and a giant tin of olive oil -
an investigation which takes him from the exotic back streets of Shepherd's
Bush all the way to far-flung Birmingham - everyone, most of all Slider
himself, is wondering whether this latest crisis will make or break the
steely-eyed, furry-headed detective. And the unexpected advent of True Love
might well prove one stimulus too many to his performance...
#2. Death Watch [1992], 10 hours 5 mins
When a noted womaniser dies in mysterious circumstances in a sleazy motel
and the whole of his murky past comes to light, Slider begins to question
more than whether the game is worth the candle. Right is right, and
indivisible. As soon as he's solved the motel mystery, and found out what
the Neary boys and gorgeous George are up to, Slider's going to have to
start putting his own house in order...
#3. Necrochip [1992], 11 hours 2 mins
Detective Inspector Bill Slider faces the unhygienic fact of a dismembered
corpse in a catering establishment - a case which takes him though the
trackless wastes of Hammersmith to farthest Notting Hill, and plunges him
into the sort of seedy underworld a sensitive chap would sooner avoid...
#4. Dead End [1994] , 9 hours 17 mins
A call-out to a murder saves Detective Inspector Bill Slider from having
to finish his canteen lunch, but presents him with the problem of a dead
conductor - some musicians say the only good kind. In life Sir Stefan
Radek was seriously famous and terminally unpleasant, but neither of these
facts seem reason enough to gun him down in broad daylight, cold blood and
a neo-Byzantine church in Shepherd's Bush. As Slider delves into the
megastar's private life he finds there's no shortage of suspects: everyone
seems tastelessly glad that Radek is dead. Plenty of people are not telling
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and lovers past and
present - male and female - as well as a hotbed of family squabbles and
financial shenanigans complicate an already tangled case....
#5. Blood Lines [1996], 10 hours 38 mins
With his violinist lady-love busy entertaining at Gleynbourne, Detective
Inspector Bill Slider almost welcomes a call out to BBC TV Centre where
a celebrated music critic appears to have topped himself - only minutes
before due to appear live on a question show. But there are signs that
the body has been interfered with, and Slider suspects murder. One fellow
panellist is known to have quarrelled violently with Greatrex just before
his death, but won't say what about. Trouble is, two members of the
production team also have motives for the murder; and nobody in the
building has a proper alibi. Then a surprise new witness turns up to add
to the confusion, by casting suspicion on one of Slider's own, a personal
friend to boot. Slider is under pressure to make an arrest, and all his
instincts are at odds with the evidence. But a dangerous killer is on the
loose, and could kill again...
#6. Killing Time [1996], 10 hours 28 mins
Slider was hoping for a quiet week. But erotic dancer Jay Paloma is
murdered, only hours after complaining about poison pen letters, and
Slider plunges into the seedy world of entertainment to question table-
dancers, prostitutes, pimps, and cabinet ministers. Did Jay's murderer
also whack popular "community cop" PC Cosgrave? What was Cosgrave's
connection with prostitute Maroon Brown? Who exactly was blackmailing
whom? And why on earth would an animal rights group storm a tacky
Shepherd's Bush night club?
#7. Shallow Grave [1998], 11 hours 19 mins
Detective Inspector Bill Slider has always been keen on architecture -
what Atherton calls his edifice complex - and the Old Rectory is the
kind of house he would give anything to own. But the dead body of
Jennifer Andrews, found in a hole on the terrace, rather spoils the
view. It looks a straightforward case: Jennifer was a congenital flirt,
and the hole was dug by her builder husband Eddie, who was violent and
jealous. But questions remain unanswered. Why was Jennifer's body so
unmarked? How did she reach her shallow grave unnoticed? And why would
anyone want to be an estate agent?
#8. Blood Sinister [1999], 10 hours 41 mins
Award-winning ex-Guardian hack Phoebe Agnew had a name for championing
the underdog - and for attacking the police in print. When her trussed
and strangled body is found in her chaotic flat, Detective Inspector
Slider must demonstrate the impartiality of the law and find her killer.
On the day of her death the horribly undomesticated Agnew cooked an
elaborate meal for someone. Was it her old friend (and reputed lover)
Josh Prentiss? But Prentiss, a Government advisor, has powerful friends
in the Home Office, and the pressure is on Slider to look elsewhere...
#9. Gone Tomorrow [2001], 11 hours 14 mins
When a body turns up in a gated Shepherd's Bush playground, DI Slider
and his workaholic staff quickly realise that the victim was an unlikely
candidate for murder. The baffling case of unlucky Lenny, a small-time
dealer in stolen goods and drugs, blows open when, through a fortuitous
but believable coincidence, Slider's sidekick and best friend, Det. Supt.
Jim Atherton, discovers a connection between the victim and a mysterious
crime syndicate. The meat of the story is how the methodical, intuitive
Slider and his people identify the ringleader and unravel the mechanics
of his organization, which ensures loyalty by viciously threatening its
members.
#10. Dear Departed [2004], 10 hours 18 mins
Chattie Cornfeld was murdered while jogging in the park. She ran her own
small marketing company and lived comfortably, perhaps too comfortably
for her income. At first it looked as though she was the latest victim
of the 'Park Killer', but it doesn't take Inspector Bill Slider and his
colleague Atherton long to establish that someone was trying to pass the
killing off as part of a pattern: only the pattern doesn't fit, this one
was personal. Chattie was popular with all who crossed her path, and it
was difficult to imagine she had gained any enemies. Turning to the two
most popular motives for murder - money and passion - Slider and his
team's investigation turn up some puzzling anomalies in her life, not
least the number of men who counted themselves as her lover and the
tangled relationships of her family. But none of the suspects can be
made to fit what evidence they have, unless of course they've been mis-
reading the evidence ...
#11. Game Over [2008], 9 hours 3 mins CD
The murder of any journalist is bound to whip the news media into
a frenzy. So when ex-BBC correspondent Ed Stonax is found dead, the last
thing Detective Inspector Bill Slider needs to complicate his life is the
reappearance of an old enemy issuing death threats. Trevor Bates,
aka The Needle, is on the loose and trying to kill him, and with
a high-profile murder to solve, he must try to find a spare moment to
marry Joanna before their baby is born - and stay alive long enough to
do it...The eleventh Bill Slider Mystery finds the everyman hero grappling
with corruption in high places as two old cases come back to haunt him.
#12. Fell Purpose [2009], 10 hours 42 mins CD
Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding straight-A student,
prefect, future Head Girl lies dead near the famous Wormwood Scrubs
prison in London. What was this good Christian girl doing out there,
dressed to kill, when she was supposed to be at a sleep-over with school
friends? A secret boyfriend from a run-down estate and a recently-released
rapist look tasty; or could the nearby fairground or prison have something
to do with it? Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team from Shepherd's
Bush police station are soon investigating the murder of this young girl,
not quite seventeen years old, strangled with a pair of women's tights...
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