Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2000/06

From: "William J. Maynard" <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] fiction
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:00:04 -0400

There was a mystery written ca. 1950 which has a clarinetist as a central
figure. The jacket states the following: "Who killed solo violinist Lucy
Carless during a concert by the Markshire Orchestra? Was it her first
husband? Or her second? Womanizer Bill Ventry? Or perhaps the clarinetist
and fellow Polish emigre, Zbartorowski, with whom she'd had a violent
argument?"
Opening a page at random: " There is one person unaccounted for in this
affair, and that is the man who impersonated Mr. Jenkinson, as a player of -
what is the name of that thing?"
"A clarinet," said Dixon"
"A clarinet-precisely. Now is this an uncommon sort of thing?"
"Good clarinets are hard to come by, like everything else nowadays. I saw a
nice Bb one for sale in London the last time I was there..."
"I mean, are there many people about who can play it?"...

"Good Lord! he said,"Isn't that Whatsisname playing the thingmebob?"
"Zbartorowski playing the clarinet,"

The author is Cyril Hare, and the title, THE WIND BLOWS DEATH. Originally
published as WHEN THE WIND BLOWS.

Maybe we do need a good Mozart mystery!!

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