MUSIC TELLS ALL

&ldquo,Gets on your nerves, doesn&rsquo,t it? I mean, that playing of hers. I&rsquo,ve never heard anything like it.&rdquo, &ldquo,I haven&rsquo,t either,&rdquo, Bobby said. Bobby Owen (now &lsquo,temporary-acting-junior-under-deputy-assistant-commissioner&rsquo, of the C.I.D.) and his wife Olive are house-hunting. Finding the perfect country home, every prospect pleases &hellip, 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 everyone, and Bobby Owen even wonders if the recent murder of a stranger might have been provoked by it. The true significance of the music, and what it has to do with a recent jewellery theft, is at the heart of a classic mystery set in the English countryside. Music Tells All was first published in 1948, the twenty-fourth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. &ldquo,What is distinction? &hellip, in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.&rdquo, Dorothy L. Sayers_,