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The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel

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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.

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.

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.