Axel Crochet: Musicologist-at-Large Quarter Note Tales #3

by Arthur Wenk

Axel Crochet, peripatetic professor of music history, nurtures a youthful enthusiasm that he passes on to his students. His passion for music is obvious, and his disdain for university politics is evident as his work leads him from college to college.
  Die, For I Am A-Dying .  Abby Fox, a music major at an exclusive women's college where Axel temporarily teaches, commits suicide after her father dies.  But after Axel's other students persuade him that Abby would never have taken her own life, Axel begins an investigation that soon implies she may have been murdered.

Prime Suspect .  As a visiting scholar at Magnolia University, Axel is unexpectedly embroiled in another case when one of his classmates dies in an accident and he takes possession of her computer--a decision that leads him into a struggle with a computer genius in a story involving Proust and prime numbers.

Tarry Awhile.   As a visiting professor at Frangipani University, Axel discovers that his life mirrors that of Faust when the death of a stage director draws him into a maelstrom of jealousy and violence in the world's largest school of music.

In this intriguing collection of novellas, Axel Crochet's love of musicology leads him straight into unintended interludes with killers, danger, and intrigue as he attempts to solve a trio of murder investigations.

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2011

About the author

Arthur Wenk holds a doctorate in musicology from Cornell University and master’s degrees in music theory, information science and counselling psychology. Dr. Wenk taught music history in American and Canadian universities and calculus and Advanced Placement Statistics in a private school; he also pursued careers as a psychotherapist and a church organist.
Arthur Wenk’s publications include works on music history and bibliography, choral conducting, photography, and western culture, as well as a series of murder mysteries featuring musicologist Axel Crochet as sleuth. His most recent books include The Matrix of Western Culture: Perspectives on History, the Arts, and Ideas; A Brief History of Classical Music: A Tale of Time, Tonality, and Timbre; History, the Arts, and Ideas: Exploring the Matrix of Western Culture; and In Search of America: Perspectives on History, Literature, Art, Music, and Film.
Since his retirement in 2014 Arthur Wenk lives in North Fort Myers, Florida and Lagoon City, Ontario.