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Author
Series
Inspector Lynley novel volume 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley risks his career when he discovers that a recent murder victim had been tied to an old homicide investigation that could involve his superior, Superintendent Malcolm Webberly.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, the peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
26) Golden boy
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young and gifted violinist earns money for his education by prizefighting.
Author
Series
Medical and Crime Thrillers volume 6
Language
English
Description
"In a shadowy antiques shop in Rome, violinist Julia Ansdell happens upon a curious piece of music-- the Incendio waltz-- and is immediately entranced by its unusual composition. Full of passion, torment, and chilling beauty, and seemingly unknown to the world, the waltz, its mournful minor key, its feverish arpeggios, appear to dance with a strange life of their own. Julia is determined to master the complex work and make its melody heard. Back home...
28) Huxley on Huxley
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Laura Huxley married Aldous Huxley in 1956. Their home was the center of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of Los Angeles. Huxley on Huxley offers a compelling glimpse of Laura's life with Aldous and the revolutionary and provocative work that had a major influence on American and contemporary cultural history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Since becoming an unlikely millionaire and quitting the St. Paul Police Department, Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favors for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He's been asked to find a stolen Stradivarius, known as the Countess Borromeo, that only the violinist seems to want him to find. Stolen from a locked room in a B & B in the violinist's former...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein, Huberman saved nearly 1000 Jews-and guaranteed the survival of Europe's musical heritage.
31) Carnal innocence
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou ... or someone right next door.
Author
Series
Belmont Mansion novel volume 3
Language
English
Description
A master violinist trained in Vienna, Rebekah Carrington manages to wheedle her way into an audition with the newly formed Nashville Philharmonic. But women are "far too fragile and frail" for the rigors of an orchestra, and Rebekah's hopes are dashed because the conductor bows to public opinion. Nationally acclaimed conductor Nathaniel Tate Whitcomb is Nashville's new orchestra leader, and despite a strange buzzing and recurring pain in his head,...
34) The fetishist
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people--Kyoko, a Japanese...
35) Violin
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A woman from New Orleans steals a violin from a ghost and becomes the musician she always wanted, finding herself acclaimed on two continents. Part fantasy, part reality.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this vividly imagined historical novel, acclaimed Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala has focused his laser-sharp wit on the life and times of George Bridgetower, a young violin prodigy, who, at the age of nine, took the courtly world of 18th century Europe by storm--and surprise, given the youth's unusual origins: for young George was of mixed- race parentage, known in the parlance of the day as a mulatto. Though his father Augustus was from Barbados...
Author
Series
Leslie Frost volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
While posing as a world-class concert violinist, secret service agent Leslie Frost witnesses a murder in a Leipzig church and begins to investigate, uncovering some pre-glasnost shenanigans and a possible threat to her own life.
39) Death grip
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Juniper
Pub. Date
1993.
Lexile measure
340L
Language
English
Description
After a concert in Venice someone steals Shane Lockwood's valuable violin. The thief demands a "favor" for the violin's return and threatens to kill Shane if he does not cooperate. Is Shane's girlfriend, Laurie Carlson, involved in this plot?
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