Swing
Subtitle: a mystery
By: Rupert Holmes
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.); Fiction; Women composers; Jazz musicians
Description: Jazz musician Ray Sherwood, playing at the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on the newly created Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, simultaneously becomes involved with a beautiful and talented Berkeley student who seeks his help in orchestrating her highly original composition, and in the investigation into a mysterious Frenchwoman who plunges to her death from the island's emblematic Tower of the Sun.
Notes: Accompanying compact disc contains songs and music featured prominently in the novel.