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The Rainaldi Quartet
Paul Adam
#UB5512
Paperback, 312 pages; 2007 (2004)
$8.90
Bas Bleu is proud to offer fourteen novels published by Felony & Mayhem, specialists in saving classic, plot-driven mysteries from extinction! Publisher Maggie Topkis has selected these titles especially for Bas Bleu's readers. She's written most of the reviews on these four pages. Look for her initials (MT) to see why she likes what she likes!
Gianni, an engaging old geezer of Cremona, Italy, works as a luthier (a maker and restorer of violins). He plays chamber quartets with the local parish priest and the chief of police—and he has a certain…relaxed morality. When another luthier is murdered, the police chief realizes that he lacks the musical knowledge necessary to solve the case, so he drafts Gianni to help. Finding the solution takes the two of them from Italy's great opera houses to an English country estate. They have to track down not only a long-lost portrait and a notoriously secretive collector, but also (and perhaps more problematically) a decent lunch in England. As they delve more deeply into the murder, it becomes increasingly clear that the key to its solution is entwined, somehow, with the legend of a priceless, centuries-old violin.
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