BOOKS - The Schumann Proof (Rendezvous Crime) by Peter Schaffter (2004-11-01)
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The Schumann Proof (Rendezvous Crime) by Peter Schaffter (2004-11-01)
Author: Peter Schaffter
Year: 2004
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
Year: 2004
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
Vikkan Lantry a pianist with more talent than ambition is content with his job at an upscale cocktail lounge until a request from reclusive soprano Ulrike Vogel draws him grudgingly back into the world of classical music Ulrikes mysterious past and her friendship with elderly Viennese piano teacher Dieter Mann usher Vikkan into an intrigue that begins in the nineteenth century with an unknown song cycle composed by Robert Schumann and ends in the presentday with a grisly double murder As Vikkan probes the layers of deceit obscuring a killers identity The Schumann Proof reveals itself to be a study in ambition gone awry The theme is hardly new but The Schumann Proof gives it a fresh slant examining not only the devastating results of too much seeking after personal glory but the painful consequences of too little