Tuner Mystery Novel

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Hi Anita

Well, perhaps you could have a plot twist and have the statue filled with 
cocaine!

That would be valuable, wouldn´t it?

Or it could be a wooly mammoth´s tusk that somebody wanted to make keytops 
out of...

Kristinn Leifsson

P.S. I´ve also thought about various was to hide drugs or contraband in 
pianos, under the keys etc.


At 06:03 22.2.2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I have a rather odd request. I've been tuning and fixing pianos for about 
>20 years and I'm also a writer. I've decided to write a series of mystery 
>novels with a piano tuner as the heroine. I've started the first one and 
>have two more ideas in mind.
>
>I want the mystery to revolve around some aspect of music, pianos, musical 
>instruments. In the first novel a wooden carving is stolen for no apparent 
>reason from one of the tuner's client's house. It's a beautiful statue of 
>a monk playing a cello (some friends actually do have a carving like this, 
>and it's beautiful). My dilemma is this: What wood can the statue be made 
>of, which would be valuable enough to be stolen by someone who wanted it 
>in some aspect of musical instrument building, and yet still could be made 
>into a statue probably about 2 feet high? I had in mind Brazilian 
>Rosewood, does that make sense?
>
>I was going to have it be a harpsichord builder, but then I am told 
>rosewood was not used on historical harpsichords (thus would not be used 
>in replicas). Duh! I guess I should have known that. So, either I need 
>another wood, or I have to change the guy into a builder of historical 
>pianos, or maybe a violin maker.
>
>The instrument builder, by the way, is NOT the one who stole the statue. 
>Heaven forbid! He's just a kind of red herring.
>
>If anybody can help me, I would be MOST  grateful. I would even receive 
>plot ideas graciously! Please reply to me at my home address, 
><mailto:anita@proaxis.com>anita@proaxis.com      Thanks so much!
>
>Anita Sullivan
>
>