Music Tells All: A Bobby Owen Mystery

Gets on your nerves doesnt it? I mean that playing of hers. Ive never heard anything like it.I havent either Bobby said.Bobby Owen (now temporary-acting-junior-under-deputy-assistant-commissioner of the C.I.D.) and his wife Olive are house-hunting. Finding the perfect country home every prospect pleases ... until they meet their neighbours including the odd piano-playing Miss Bellamy and Mr. Fielding whose jollity is unsettling. The incessant piano music seems to jar on everyone and Bobby Owen even wonders if the recent murder of a stranger might have been provoked by it. The true significance of the music and what it has to do with a recent jewellery theft is at the heart of a classic mystery set in the English countryside.Music Tells All was first published in 1948 the twenty-fourth of the Bobby Owen mysteries a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.What is distinction? ... in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time. Dorothy L. Sayers