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The Music Box Murders

When Thomas Purdue is awakened early one morning by his old friend Charles O'Shacker, a music-box restorer, to tell him that Harry Hardwick, the world's biggest music box collector, had just died; and then to get a second call from Thomas' favorite "picker", Broadway Schwartz, to tell him that a very rare Rigid Notation Box could be found at a local antique store, Thomas hardly expected either piece of information would get five people killed, send him off to London's upper- and underworld, be the reason he inherits a condo and a new job, and get him back with his wife. But they do.Chock-full of the most intriguing and amazing information about the world of music boxes and their exceptionally rich collectors, Dr. Karp's first novel is not only a musical history lesson, it is a page-turning, travel-poster, rollicking puzzle of "music box, music box, who's got the music box?" And who's doing the killing to get it?

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781885173584
  • Genres
  • mystery
  • Release date
  • 1999