The Strings of Murder

The brutal slaying of a violinist in his home in 1888 sparks a locked room murder mystery investigated by two diametrically opposed Edinburgh detectives.1888: a violinist is brutally murdered inhis Edinburgh home. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper,Scotland Yard sends Inspector IanFrey. Frey reports to Detective "Nine-Nails"McGray, local legend and exact oppositeof the foppish English inspector.McGray’s tragic past has driven himto superstition, but even Frey must admitthat this case seems beyond belief...There was no way in or out of the locked music studio. And there are black magic symbols on the floor. The dead man’s maid swears there werethree musiciansplaying before the murder. And the suspects all talk of acursed violin once played by theDevil himself.Inspector Frey has always been a man of reason—but the longer this investigation goes on, the more his grasp on reason seems to be slipping...