Another "purely English murder" from the classic detective genre Cyril Hare was a judge of the district court in Surrey, and it is not accidental that in this book the motives of the crime are explained by the peculiarities of British jurisprudence. So, a typical English town, where a provincial orchestra of amateur musicians gives a concert together with the famous violinist-virtuoso . At the rehearsal in the afternoon, the guest star-foreigner plays a fierce and inspiring. Then there is a quarrel between her and one of the musicians of the orchestra, and in the evening during a concert the artist is killed. A lot of people are under suspicion.... The reader will get real pleasure, immersed in the unfettered atmosphere of the investigation of a mysterious crime. The honor of solving the murder belongs to the retired lawyer F. Pettigrew . More than anything in the world, he wants to live quietly, and least of all wants to participate in the investigation, which is conducted by a newly appointed and self-confident police inspector. The reader before the policeman can guess who the killer is if, as a lawyer, he knows and loves Dickens, as well as Mozart and Handel. In any case, appreciate this example of a magnificent English detective, full of irony. Miss Silver