It’s no mystery why music and mysteries go so well together. Musicians are society’s outsiders, from the pioneers of the blues with their devotion to what the straight world considered devil’s music, through the inventors of bebop with their rebellious lifestyles and hipster vocabulary, up to the rock stars of the sixties with their sex and drugs and rock and roll. These worlds easily lend themselves to evil-doing, and they are fascinating worlds for a cop, a private investigator, or an amateur sleuth to explore. And when the sleuth himself is a musician, his approach to his job is often as unconventional as his personality.Join mystery writer Peggy Ehrhart on a tour through mystery novels that exploit the mysterious possibilities of popular music—and learn about some authors you might like to add to your reading list.
Peggy Ehrhart is the author of Sweet Man Is Gone , featuring blues-singer sleuth Maxx Maxwell. She holds a Ph.D. in English literature and taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University until 2002, when she retired to write fiction full time. Sweet Man Is Gone was inspired by her adventures playing guitar in her own band. She lives in Leonia, NJ.
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