Death and the Maiden

A Daniel Jacobus Mystery

A Daniel Jacobus Mystery (Volume 3)

Gerald Elias

Minotaur Books

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As the New Magini String Quartet prepares for a performance of Schubert's 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 Christie's And Then There Were None.

Dogged 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 Schubert’s masterpiece, “Death and the Maiden,” to resurrect its faltering fortunes.  But as the fateful downbeat approaches, a la Agatha Christie, one by one the quartet’s musicians mysteriously vanish, including second violinist, Yumi Shinagawa, former student of renowned blind pedagogue and amateur sleuth, Daniel Jacobus.It 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.

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Hearing the tepid applause as the maestro du jour sauntered onto the Tanglewood stage, Jacobus relegated the lawsuit to the back of his mind.
He was among the sparse, haggard crowd that braved the damp chill to hear the Boston Symphony’s next-to-last outdoor concert of the summer season, a Saturday night performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a piece of music that he often turned to for life-affirming reassurance in moments of personal despair.

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A graduate of Yale, GERALD ELIAS has been a Boston Symphony violinist, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Utah, first violinist of the Abramyan String Quartet, and Music Director of the Vivaldi Candlelight concert series.  He is also author of “Devil’s Trill,” selected by Barnes and Noble for their 2009 Discover Great New Writers catalog, and “Danse Macabre,” hailed as one of the top five mysteries in 2010 by Library Journal.

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Death and the Maiden
A Daniel Jacobus Mystery
A Daniel Jacobus Mystery (Volume 3)
Gerald Elias

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St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
August 2011
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ISBN: 9780312678340
ISBN10: 0312678347
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 304 pages
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