{"product_id":"9781491703199","title":"Quarter Note Tales #4: An Axel Crochet Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn “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.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144879194352,"sku":"9781491703199","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781491703199_p0.jpg?v=1763658836","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781491703199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}