Death and the Maiden: A Daniel Jacobus Mystery

As the New Magini String Quartet prepares for a performance of Schuberts masterpiece Death and the Maiden which it hopes will resuscitate its faltering career someone starts picking off members of the string quartet a la Agatha Christies And Then There Were NoneDogged by internal dissension and by a potentially devastating lawsuit from its fired second violinist the famed New Magini String Quartet is on the brink of professional and personal collapse The quartet pins its hopes on a multi-media Carnegie Hall performance of Franz Schuberts masterpiece Death and the Maiden to resurrect its faltering fortunes But as the fateful downbeat approaches a la Agatha Christie one by one the quartets musicians mysteriously vanish including second violinist Yumi Shinagawa former student of renowned blind pedagogue and amateur sleuth Daniel JacobusIt is left up to the begrudging Jacobus with his old friend Nathaniel Williams and a new member of the detective team Trotsky the bulldog to unravel the deadly puzzle As usual it ends up more than Jacobus bargained for.