Quarter Note Tales #4: An Axel Crochet Trilogy

Once again Axel Crochet, bearded musicologist-at-large, stumbles into murderous intrigue amid church politics and academic amphigory, where tempers run so high because the stakes are so low.

In “Cat’s Paw,” Axel is convinced by a colleague at Pittsburgh’s Monongahela University to investigate the sudden death of the university organist, putting both his academic position and his life in jeopardy. In “The Carcassonne Codex,” Axel attends a professional meeting in Minneapolis. He soon finds h...