Quarter Note Tales #4

<p>Once again Axel Crochet bearded musicologist-at-large stumbles into murderous intrigue amid church politics and academic amphigory where tempers run so high because the stakes are so low.</p><p>In Cat's Paw Axel is convinced by a colleague at Pittsburgh's Monongahela University to investigate the sudden death of the university organist putting both his academic position and his life in jeopardy. In The Carcassonne Codex Axel attends a professional meeting in Minneapolis. He soon finds himself thrust in the middle of a murderous plot after he is handed a pill bottle by a hotel housemaid and becomes suspicious about the death of a noted medievalist. In If Thine Eye Offend Thee Axel begins a new position as music director at a wealthy church where abuses by the rector have alienated the congregation and evoked calls for his removal. Axel encounters a warm welcome from the choir but hostility from the sinister senior warden.</p> <p>In this trilogy of murder mysteries a curious musicologist with a propensity for attracting mayhem must overcome professional jealousies evil plots and bizarre chains of events.</p>