Murder to Music - Margaret Newman

Murder to Music by Margaret Newman

A book in the Uncrowned Queens of Crime series. I got this thanks to Agora Books to review.

It’s nice these crime novels are being published again. It was first published in 1959 but it is still worth

a read.

Detective superintendent Simon Hudson is attending a Metropolitana Choir concert, where his girlfriend

Delia  is singing in the choir. The assistant director Owen Barr is shot after conducting

Mr. Tredegar’s Mass.

Owen has a capacity for taking and giving offence and since he was appointed assistant director

the meetings and choir practices has not been very harmonic ones. Shortly after his death the Italian

tenor Mr. Cassati disappears and another murder is attempted.

The members of the Metro’s Managing Committee responsible for the concert are all under suspicion.

Simons girlfriend, Delia is also a member and helps Simon investigate.

I enjoyed reading the story - entertaining and well written. The ending was a surprise to me.