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Felony and Mayhem Mystery First Time in Paperback
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Gianni Castiglione has a pleasant, quiet life in Cremona. A luthier'a maker and repairer of violins'he spends most of his time adoring his grandchildren and playing chamber-quartets with the local priest, the chief of police, and a fellow aging luthier, Tomaso Rainaldi. Rainaldi is in thrall to music's myths, particularly the stories about the 'Messiah's Sister, ' a priceless, centuries-old, and possibly imaginary violin. When Rainaldi is brutally murdered and his workroom destroyed, it becomes clear that violins had something to do with his death, and the chief of police needs Castiglione's knowledge of the luthier's world. Following the clues will take the two men deep into musical history
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All the appeal of The Da Vinci Code, with music and the specialty of violin-making as the backdrop. *Starred review in Publishers Weekly *First time in paperback Particularly beautiful cover *Mysteries involving art and music - and particularly when t