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Swing : a mystery / Rupert Holmes.

Title
Swing : a mystery / Rupert Holmes.
Author
Holmes, Rupert.
Publication
New York : Random House, c2005.

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+discTextRequest in advance PS3558.O367 S95 2005 +discOff-site

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372 p. : ill.; 25 cm +
Summary
Jazz musician Ray Sherwood, playing at the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on the newly created Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, simultaneously becomes involved with a beautiful and talented Berkeley student who seeks his help in orchestrating her highly original composition, and in the investigation into a mysterious Frenchwoman who plunges to her death from the island's emblematic Tower of the Sun.
Subject
  • Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.) > Fiction
  • Women composers > Fiction
  • Jazz musicians > Fiction
  • San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction
  • Musical fiction.
  • Mystery fiction
  • Compact discs.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
CD contents: 1. The music speaks to me (instrumental version). 2. Believe you me. 3. Beef lo mein. 4. A night at the Claremont: Soup du jour. A temptress in taupe & too bad for you. 5. The music speaks to me (vocal version). 6. Self-portrait. 7. Swing around the sun.
ISBN
140006158X
LCCN
^^2004050765
OCLC
  • 55149379
  • SCSB-10529283
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library