The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists
Published on 12. November 2013
224 pages
978-1-4804-5519-1 (ISBN)
Description
Cassandra Reilly travels to Venice to solve the mystery of a missing bassoon, and lands in the midst of an international cast of characters who all have something to hide
At the Venice-based symposium on women musicians of Vivaldi's time, an instrument has gone missing: an antique bassoon, an invaluable family heirloom-and bassoonist Nicky Gibbons stands accused of the theft. Determined to clear her name, Nicky calls Cassandra Reilly-lesbian translator and part-time sleuth extraordinaire-and summons her to the City of Water. Fifteen scholars and musicians are attending the symposium, and each has a multitude of quirks and secrets-as well as motive to steal the bassoon. As Cassandra investigates, she immerses herself in the world of Baroque music, the tangle of personal intrigues at the symposium, and a second mystery involving the orphaned bassoonists of eighteenth-century Venice.
Wry, intelligent, and atmospheric, The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonistsis the fourth and final book in the Cassandra Reilly Mystery series, which begins with Gaudí Afternoon, Trouble in Transylvania, and The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman.
At the Venice-based symposium on women musicians of Vivaldi's time, an instrument has gone missing: an antique bassoon, an invaluable family heirloom-and bassoonist Nicky Gibbons stands accused of the theft. Determined to clear her name, Nicky calls Cassandra Reilly-lesbian translator and part-time sleuth extraordinaire-and summons her to the City of Water. Fifteen scholars and musicians are attending the symposium, and each has a multitude of quirks and secrets-as well as motive to steal the bassoon. As Cassandra investigates, she immerses herself in the world of Baroque music, the tangle of personal intrigues at the symposium, and a second mystery involving the orphaned bassoonists of eighteenth-century Venice.
Wry, intelligent, and atmospheric, The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonistsis the fourth and final book in the Cassandra Reilly Mystery series, which begins with Gaudí Afternoon, Trouble in Transylvania, and The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman.
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Barbara Wilson is the pen name of Barbara Sjoholm, an award-winning translator of Danish and Norwegian, and the author of many travel books, memoirs, and biographies. In the 1980s, Wilson's mysteries were some of the first lesbian crime novels to appear. One series features Seattle printer and feminist Pam Nilsen as she discovers her sexuality and investigates crimes in her community. Another showcases Cassandra Reilly, an Irish-American translator of Spanish based in London. The first Cassandra Reilly novel,
Gaudí Afternoon, won the Lambda Literary Award and the Crime Writers' Association Award, and was made into a film of the same name. The most recent Cassandra Reilly mystery is
Not the Real Jupiter (2021). For more information, visit www.barbarasjoholm.com and www.barbarawilsonmysteries.com.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-one
- Twenty-two
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
