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Ragtime Mysteries
Poisoned Pen Press
April 2010
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Featuring: Scott Joplin
308 pages
ISBN: 1590587014
EAN: 9781590587010
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Mystery
It’s 1916, and time’s running out for Scott Joplin. Before
he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and to secure his
place in musical history. He’s written a musical drama. His
young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, who works as a
book-keeper at Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Music
Publishers, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to
publish and produce the work. The next day, Niederhoffer walks into his office and finds
Joplin crouched over the blood-soaked body of a young man.
He hustles his teacher away; unfortunately, the two are seen
leaving the building. Nell Stark, daughter of Joplin’s first
publisher, John Stark, hides Joplin and Niederhoffer from
the police and calls her father in from St. Louis to help
sort out the mess. After Berlin denies ever having received
Joplin’s play, young Niederhoffer breaks cover and engages
the services of a hit man. And just when things couldn’t get
worse, Niederhoffer’s girlfriend, Birdie, is kidnapped.
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