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Robert Barnard Death of a Mystery Writer
Dell 1985 044012168X / 9780440121688 Mass Market Paperback Good
044012168X 044012168X Review Publishers Weekly Barnard's positively ducky satire of the British whodunit will be lauded here as it has been in England. The author mixes humor and suspense cunningly, beginning with the character of Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, wealthy writer of trashy whodunits...Sir Oliver delights in abusing practically everyone. So it's no real surprise when he falls dead...The story ends with a real bang. -- Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description From master mystery writer Robert Barnard, one of his early novels, Death of a Mystery Writer. First published in 1979, Death of a Mystery Writer received an Edgar Award nomination for "Best Novel" of that year. It's with great pleasure that Scribner reissues this beloved novel from one of the most respected names in crime writing. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, overweight and overbearing, collapses and dies at his birthday party while indulging his taste for rare liquors. He had promised his daughter he would be polite and charitable for the entire day, but the strain of such exemplary behavior was obviously too great. He leaves a family relieved to be rid of him, and he also leaves a fortune, earned as a bestselling mystery author. To everyone's surprise, Sir Oliver's elder son, who openly hated his father, inherits most of the estate. His wife, his daughter, and his younger son are each to receive the royalties from one carefully chosen book. But the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to Sir Oliver's wife -- a posthumous "last case" that might be worth millions -- has disappeared. And Sir Oliver's death is beginning to look less than natural. Into this bitter household comes Inspector Meredith, a spirited Welshman who in some ways resembles Sir Oliver's fictional hero. In Robert Barnard's skillful hands, Inspector Meredith's investigation becomes not only a classic example of detection but an elegant and humorous slice of crime. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Robert Barnard; Bernard Bastable Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart
Carroll & Graf Pub 1996 0786703156 / 9780786703159 Hardcover Good
0786703156 0786703156 Ex-Library with the usual markings. Amazon.com Had Mozart lived to the age of 73, he might have fallen out of favor, becoming a "largely forgotten, neglected, unperformed composer." At least that's the premise of Bastable's historical mystery Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart, in which an aging Mozart is sent to the English court of William IV to tutor 11-year-old Princess Victoria in music. Soon the child has her doting tutor wrapped around her finger and convinces him to spy on her mother and her illicit paramour. When the young Victoria's life is threatened, Mozart finds himself in a royal tangle--unable to trust anyone and increasingly fearful for his own life. From Publishers Weekly Combining mystery with alternative history, Bastable, who is really veteran mystery author Robert Barnard, offers us a Wolfgang Mozart who has lived to old age. Still unrecognized, still in debt, a widower after a long and happy marriage, the former child prodigy and performer for kings finds himself giving music lessons to Princess Victoria, heir apparent to the throne of England. But having more on her mind than music, the princess asks her piano teacher to uncover the truth about the ambiguous relationship between her mother and Sir John Conroy. The mature Mozart-a bit cagey, puckish, and fond of his young student-acts as a liaison between the princess's mother and the disarmingly informal newly crowned King William IV, who lives with Queen Adelaide surrounded by his brood of illegitimate children. The King, Victoria's uncle, invites her, the heir apparent, to the Windsor court. Shortly after her arrival, a court visitor is fatally poisoned after sipping from a cup intended for Victoria, and the king calls upon Mozart to make the kind of discreet inquiries at which he has proven so competent. Bastable imagines his characters and their setting so fully and seamlessly and offers such appealing possibilities that readers will wish this slight piece offered Mozart and Victoria more range. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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