Death on the down beat: an orchestral fantasy of detection
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"This addition to the Crime Classics series is an immersive musical mystery, featuring diagrams of the orchestra arrangement and four pages of musical notation with relevance to the plot. First published in 1941 but out-of-print since, this is by a lost writer of the genre, Sebastian Farr (a pseudonym for Eric Walter Blom), a prolific Swiss-born and British-naturalised music lexicographer, music critic and writer. The headline from The Maningpool Telegraph read: TRAGIC DEATH OF SIR NOEL GRAMPIAN - shot during performance - Symphony Concert Calamity As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented yet obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is shot dead in full view of the Municipal Orchestra and the audience. It was no secret that he had many enemies - musicians and music critics among them - but to be killed in mid flow suggests an act of the coldest calculation. Told through the letters and documents sent by D.I. Alan Hope to his wife as he puzzles through the dauntingly vast pool of suspects and scant physical evidence in the case, this is an innovative and playful mystery underscored by the author's extensive experience of the highly-strung world of music professionals. First published in 1941, this new edition returns Farr's only crime novel to print to receive its long-deserved encore"--
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Angleterre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Chefs d'orchestre
Chefs d'orchestre -- Crimes contre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Conductors (Music)
Conductors (Music) -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Crime
Crime -- Fiction
Crimes against
Crimes contre
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
England -- Fiction
Enquêtes
Fiction
Investigation
Meurtre
Meurtre -- Enquêtes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Murder
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Musicians
Musicians -- Fiction
Musiciens
Musiciens -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Novels
Police
Police -- Fiction
Romans
Chefs d'orchestre
Chefs d'orchestre -- Crimes contre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Conductors (Music)
Conductors (Music) -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Crime
Crime -- Fiction
Crimes against
Crimes contre
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
England -- Fiction
Enquêtes
Fiction
Investigation
Meurtre
Meurtre -- Enquêtes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Murder
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Musicians
Musicians -- Fiction
Musiciens
Musiciens -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Novels
Police
Police -- Fiction
Romans
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Electronic books
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
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Police -- Fiction
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Conductors (Music) -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Crime -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
England -- Fiction
Fiction
Meurtre -- Enquêtes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Musicians -- Fiction
Musiciens -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Novels
Police -- Fiction
Romans
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Death on the down beat : an orchestral fantasy of detection
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Death on the Down Beat : An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection [electronic resource] / Sebastian Farr
Death on the down beat : an orchestral fantasy of detection / Sebastian Farr ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards
Death on the down beat : an orchestral fantasy of detection / Sebastian Farr ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards
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Musiciens
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Crime
Crimes against
Crimes contre
Electronic books
Enquêtes
Investigation
Meurtre
Murder
Musicians
Musiciens
Police
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