The Music Box Murders

Larry Karp

ISBN 10: 188517358X / ISBN 13: 9781885173584

Published by Write Way, Colorado, 1999

About this Item

First edition. Fine, fresh copy in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 344 pp. Dr. Thomas Purdue gets an early-morning wake-up call from his music box restorer/friend, Charles O'Shacker, and learns that Harry Hardwick, the world's most prominent collector of musical antiques, has been murdered. Shortly thereafter, a rare and desirable music box is available for purchase at a local antique shop. When Dr. Purdue brings it to Charles to inspect, Charles is found dead, and the music box is nowhere to be found! Now Dr. Purdue is bent on finding the box and exposing his friend's killer, which leads him to a trail of five additional bodies and the underworld of London.

Seller Inventory # E33843

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Music Box Murders
• Publisher: Write Way, Colorado
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188517358X
• ISBN 13: 9781885173584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery

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Synopsis

When Thomas Pardue, a music box collector, finds out that a rare box he purchased had been stolen from a murdered friend, he tries to solve the mystery himself, and encounters more murders in the process

About the Author

P>In his first novel, Larry Karp had traded on his many years' experience as both a member of the Music Box Society of America and as a personal collector of music boxes to pen a riveting murder mystery that will appeal to both audiences. Mr. Karp lives with his wife outside of Seattle, WA.