A Canadian Mountie investigates a murder among musicians in this mystery by the Edgar Award–nominated author of the Peter Shandy series.
Although he is a decorated officer of the Mounted Police, Madoc Rhys's tin ear has long been an embarrassment to his musically fixated family. But when his father's orchestra needs a policeman, the Mountie gets a chance to make daddy proud.
It began as pranks among the brass instruments, but something is rotten inside the Wagstaffe Symphony, and is about to graduate to something criminal. Called in to look into the tensions within the group, Madoc arrives just in time to see the French horn player keel over. The death appears natural, and the orchestra boards the plane to its next engagement. But when a storm forces them to make an emergency landing and take shelter in an eerie old lodge, the extent of the danger becomes clear. Madoc may never understand music, but he has a good ear for murder, and is about to show off his chops.
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"One of the more excentric Charlotte Mac Leods and at the same time a classical detective story. A mystery with the Mounty Madoc Rhys as Detective, for once without his Janet, but with his parents and a whole Orcestra in a lonely Hotel thats left shut for the winter. The classical Situation of the Detective Story: All in one closed "Room", one of them the murderer. The on first sight humble detective, with those sharp eyes and mind and unexepected authority, when needed, clears up the riddle in the last moment, to get his parents on time to their next concert."
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Mona M (5 out of 5 stars)