Murder in A major
By: Morley Torgov.
Publisher: RendezVous Crime
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781894917650
Subjects: Schumann, Robert, -- 1810-1856 -- Fiction.; Schumann, Clara, -- 1819-1896 -- Fiction.; Detectives -- Germany -- Düsseldorf -- Fiction.; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.; Düsseldorf (Germany) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Take one of the crowning musical geniuses of mid-Nineteenth Century Europe; surround him with enemies, some of whom are fiercely jealous of his talent, others in love with his beautiful wife, add several scoundrels, including a kleptomaniac music critic who ends up murdered under highly mysterious circumstances and there you have the world of Robert and Clara Schumann in the Germany of the 1850s, as told by the narrator, Dusseldorf's top detective, Inspector Hermann Preiss.