254p. ; crimson cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted on to front cover featuring woman sitting in arm chair with violin in foreground; title and author written on spinefictionThe story takes place in the English county of Markshire. When celebrated visiting violinist Lucy Carless is strangled to death with a silk stocking backstage during a concert, everyone in the local orchestra suddenly becomes a suspectfiction, crime, mystery, thriller, cyril hare