The Quarter Note Tales
Wenk, Arthur
ISBN 10: 0973856513 ISBN 13: 9780973856514
Published by Wingate Press, 2006
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Three novellas featuring Axel Crochet, peripatetic professor of music history … An Unfaltering Trust. When the apparent suicide of a popular English professor begins to look more like murder, Axel finds that the “suicide note” seems to make reference to the victim’s wife, his student lover and his competitor for the deanship. The text of a choral elegy puts Axel on the killer’s trail, but not before a comely coed meets her death. Murder in the Music Department. An irreverent look at academic amphigory. Prof. Crochet returns home from a weekend conference to learn that the chairman of the music department has been murdered and the police are about to arrest the voice teacher, whom Axel believes to have been wrongfully accused. Murder in the Pulpit. The senior minister of Allegheny United Church dies while delivering his Christmas Eve sermon. Axel soon becomes caught in a tangled web of shady real estate practices, illegal dumping and financial malfeasance on the part of church members. Axel begins to wonder whether the minister, for all his autocratic style, was really the intended victim.
About the Author: During his twenty-year career as a musicologist, Arthur Wenk published books on Claude Debussy (Claude Debussy and the Poets; Claude Debussy and Twentieth-Century Music) and music bibliography (the prize-winning Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music and Musical Resources for the Revised Common Lectionary).
Later he drew on his experiences as a university professor, church organist, choral conductor and pianist to produce a series of mystery novellas featuring musicologist Axel Crochet as sleuth: (The Quarter Note Tales; New Quarter Note Tales: Axel in Quebec; Axel Crochet: Musicologist-at-Large; and Quarter Note Tales #4: An Axel Crochet Trilogy). Other books include A Guide to the Bookstores of Toronto, La Musique et les grandes epoques de l'art, and Camerata: A Guide to Organizing and Directing Small Choruses.
Dr. Wenk's subsequent careers as calculus teacher and psychotherapist have led to public lectures on graphing calculators, Geometer's Sketchpad, parenting and communication, separation and divorce, opera, western culture, and film. Since his retirement in 2014 Arthur Wenk lives in North Fort Myers, Florida and Lagoon City, Ontario.
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Title: The Quarter Note Tales
Publisher: Wingate Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New