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The final note wasn't music-it was murder! London, 1924. The chandeliers of the Royal Albert Hall glitter, the orchestra tunes with anticipation, and society's finest lean forward to be dazzled by Anton Lanyi, Europe's most celebrated violinist. But when his final note ends in a collapse rather than applause, the evening turns from triumph to tragedy. Poison, whispers the audience. Scandal, hisses society. Murder, thinks Lady Mildred Ramsay. Youngest daughter of an aristocratic family and a former VAD nurse during the Great War, Mildred has seen death too often to mistake it for accident. Yet the world expects her to host luncheons and mind her hems-not to pry into crimes better left to Scotland Yard. Unfortunately for Inspector Charles Kent, Mildred's sharp eyes and sharper wit refuse to sit quietly in the gallery. Drawn into a maze of suspects-the jealous conductor, the debt-ridden patroness, the ambitious understudy, the unflappable accompanist, and a stage full of secrets-Mildred soon discovers that Anton's violin held more than music. As gossip curdles into accusation and friendships into betrayals, she must navigate both the treacherous underbelly of London's musical world and the suffocating expectations of her class. With Bea, her incorrigibly gossip-loving best friend at her side, Mildred juggles coded scores, vanished instruments, and society's sharpest tongues. But as her questions close in on a killer who knows the power of silence, Mildred realises one truth: war may have made her unafraid of blood, but in peacetime, it is reputation that can kill just as surely as poison. Witty, suspenseful, and brimming with charm, The Mystery of the Vanishing Violinist is a glittering new entry in the Lady Mildred Ramsay mysteries-where murder strikes the high notes, and only an amateur sleuth with a nurse's eye for detail can bring the truth to light. Get your copy of The Mystery of the Vanishing Violinist and see how events unfold in this historical cozy mystery.

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