Music can be Murder: 1 (Can Be Mysteries)

When acclaimed ethnomusicologist Dr. Archibald Finley Dawson arrives at Twombly College for the Midwest Anthropological Studies Society conference hes swaggering over his recent bestseller; The Devils Music: Murder and Mayhem in Western Folk Music. He is the star of the conference but jealousy taints the air.Emory Crawford and her husband chemistry professor and forensic scientist Dr. Jebbin Crawford join their friend Archibald to entertain the attendees with bluegrass murder ballads following the opening banquet. But their good mood changes when Emory and Jebbin are strolling home and come across Dawsons body.He has been strangled with his own fiddle strings.Jebbin with his colleague Dr. Nibodh Chatty Chatterjee work night and day on the forensics while Emory wonders about graduate student Naomis relationship to the murdered man and what caused the friction between Dr. Dawson and Dr. Timothy Law? When Timothy is found murdered the pressure rises and Emorys Miss Marple like ways are put to the test to figure out what is going on before the killer strikes again.