Hired to find thirty-five rare records, stolen from Leon Tubin's collection, Harry Stoner finds his job complicated when Leon is brutally beaten and his girlfriend is kidnapped.
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From Publishers Weekly
The world of rare recordings and huge electrostatic stereo speakers is an unusual setting for the 10th appearance of Cincinnati PI Harry Stoner, seen before in the Shamus-winning Extenuating Circumstances. Though Stoner usually works his city's mean streets, this case has its beginnings in a cozier milieu. Mild, middle-aged Leon Tubin is missing some prized and valuable LPs. He's convinced that his fellow stereophile club member and all-around bigot Sherwood Leoffler is responsible and hires Stoner to prove it. After Stoner fends off Leon's unlikely companion Sheila, a former rock singer who has slept with a sizable portion of Ohio's male population, including most of the stereophiles, Leon is beaten while failing to protect her from a kidnapper. Stoner finds a cache of cash in their freezer, frozen assets that make the stolen records look like child's play and recast the likelihood of Sherwood's guilt. Rooting his story in crimes of the past, Valin calls on hard-hitting plotting and plenty of audio lore to yield a powerful conclusion that satisfyingly caps the story's gentler start.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Hired to investigate the theft of audiophile Leon Tubin's treasured LPs--really to pin it on rival collector Sherwood Loeffler- -Harry Stoner runs into a rash of felonies: the thief returns twice more (attacking Harry when he's caught in the act) before a final confrontation leaves Leon badly beaten and his longtime lover, rock singer Sheila Mozkowski, kidnapped. And there's more: Sheila, who's evidently been another shared passion among Leon's audiophile buddies, has had an enormous bankroll stashed in her freezer, and the guy who probably grabbed her, a rocker with the face of Richard Wagner, is wanted for murder. Taking Loeffler and street-musician Philo Ives (still another of Sheila's lovers) along for the ride, Harry tracks Sheila's old bandmate down to a Kentucky racetrack and a final, predictable twist. After the concentrated tension of Extenuating Circumstances and Second Chance, this is almost a holiday for Harry--but it's carried off with all Valin's customary professionalism. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fascinating story for the classical LPs collector !,
By Ofer Refaeli (Israel) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
An interesting detective book, an excellent reading for the audiophile, a fascinating story for the classical LPs collector !
Highly recommended for anybody who cares for his Mercury, Living Stereo and Decca/London records !!! Try to look for the 1st pressing book with the lovely Offenbach / Gaite Parisienne / Living Stereo record sleeve on the front cover.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The reviewer below is crazy -- Valin is great!,
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This review is from: The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
If you love detective fiction and can find any of Valin's Harry Stoner novels, buy them. I own them all and love every one of them. Stoner is one of the most authentic P.I.'s out there, in the mold of the great Travis McGee. Valin makes good use of his Cincinnati locations. Overall, one of the better writers in a genre that recently has produced way too many bad ones.
4 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Absolultly Horrid,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
If you have a life , heck even if you don't have a life and you live to be bored to death by a book written by a very strange man , do yourself a favor and stay away from "The Music Lovers". Horrible and insulting to the intelligent it reads like something put together by a 10th grade advanced special education student (if such a person exists). The book is filled with a cast cheesy non-palpable characters that nearly aggravate. I absolutly amazed that this man who now is the editor for a very good high end audio and video magazine actually got this fodder published. If would ask you to do anything whatsoever throughout your life is buy this book, then use it a scooper for your dog. The story goes like this this down on his luck P.I. gets a case from a guy that really isn't put together correctly. More characters than the Bible and not one of them is worth turning the page to see next. All the cast members here are what we on the sane side of the window call "Audiophiles" these are people who have a affliction for good music and great (normally very expensive) components to play thier music on ( I myself happen to be one ) but you now what Valin makes someone who doesn't even listen to music hate us. Eberts' all the way for Jon Valin and a horrible book.
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