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This edition includes two full original songs written by the author and performed by the narrator. Edinburgh, 1791. Isobel Duguid and her friend Clessidro are the stars of the Edinburgh Musical Society. Clessidro sings opera and Isobel sings famously dark Scottish ballads, despite her cavalier...

October 3, 1959: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s latest musical, “The Sound of Music,” starring Mary Martin, has just had its world premiere in New Haven, the first stop on its road to Broadway. But for one member of the company it will prove to be the final performance. The following morning, the lifeless body of beautiful newcomer Eva Rossi–Mary Martin’s understudy–is discovered in a bizarrely-appointed hotel room, beneath a wall defaced with a bloody inscription: How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Holmes and Watson are plunged into the secret underworld of 1925 London, where a serial killer of musical (gay) men is afoot. The killer has a little list, and Sherlock is on it. Why? And what have the Bloomsbury Group and the Diogenes Club got to do with anything? Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 71-year-old who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting. He's not quite as sharp as he used to be, but he's still pretty sharp, and a bit of a vigilante in his old age.

Award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has reimagined the great German composer and keyboard virtuoso Johann Sebastian Bach as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Keith Richards in this imaginative new historical mystery. During a visit to the German city of Kassel to inspect the church’s newly constructed pipe organ, (based on an actual event in his life) Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his cousin and personal secretary Elias Bach (who serves as Dr. Watson to Bach’s Sherlock) discover that the pastor of the church may have murdered his young wife.

Mord bei der Musical-Premiere! Kommissarin Heike Stein von der Kripo Hamburg will sich eigentlich nur einen vergnügten Abend machen - aber plötzlich hat sie eine Mordermittlung am Hals. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass der Selbstmord des Opfers vom Killer nur vorgetäuscht wurde. Der attraktive Schauspieler Marc Degner war ein maskuliner Alpha-Mann, der viele Herzen brechen konnte. Oder wurde der Täter nicht von Eifersucht, sondern von Geldgier getrieben? Heike muss schnell feststellen, dass im Musical-Business mit harten Bandagen gekämpft wird und es um Millionen geht.

שני מקרי רצח מחרידים מתרחשים בקרב משפחת מוסיקאים ירושלמית ומובילים את הבלש מיכאל אוחיון לתוך עולם סגור ומרתק של שפה ואורחות חיים - עולם המוסיקה והמוסיקאים.

A man is forced to share a lifeboat with a composer who keeps humming a maddening tune. This is the story of a simple melody, and of a killer. A killer, who, as the story opens, is fighting desperately, alone, against a raging storm off the coast of Maine. The lifeboat that he is in is half pounded, and the man's rowing does little good....