Music Tells All: A Bobby Owen Mystery

“Gets on your nerves, doesn’t it? I mean, that playing of hers. I’ve never heard anything like it.”

“I haven’t either,” Bobby said.

Bobby Owen (now ‘temporary-acting-junior-under-deputy-assistant-commissioner’ of the C.I.D.) and his wife Olive are house-hunting. Finding the perfect country home, every prospect pleases … until they meet their neighbours, including the odd, piano-playing Miss Bellamy, and Mr. Fielding, whose jollity is unsettling. The incessant piano music seems to jar on eve...