Detective Inspector Bill Slider is summoned to the BBC television studios where a celebrated music critic has apparently killed himself prior to appearing on television. Slider determines the victim's body has been tampered with--suggesting murder, not suicide. Interviewing the program's other prestigious art personages and the production staff, Slider uncovers several plausible motives for murder--and nobody has an alibi.
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider is summoned to the BBC television studios where a celebrated music critic has apparently killed himself prior to appearing on television. Slider determines the victim's body has been tampered with--suggesting murder, not suicide. Interviewing the program's other prestigious art personages and the production staff, Slider uncovers several plausible motives for murder--and nobody has an alibi.