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| Plot Summary of The Music Box Murders |
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"Dr. Thomas Purdue's Christmas Holidays aren't going as planned. They started with a call from his music box picker, Broadway Schwartz. Its seems that Schwartz, while scoping an antique store, stumbled on a rare swiss rigid notation music box. Thomas goes to the dealer and buys the music and gets an interesting bit information. The seller gave the dealer a false name, the name of the music box restorer and Thomas' best friend Charles "Shackey" O'Shacker. Thomas takes the box to Shackey's and find out that it had belonged to fellow friend and major collector Harry Hardwick, who had been murdered the night before. The trail of bodies doesn't end there. Soon the antique dealer and Shackey are dead. Thomas sets out to find the one in The New York Music Box Collectors Association is willing to kill to get the box and why. "
Stephen Bailey, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30%
Tone of story
- very humorous
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- nearly 100%
Special suspect?
- best friend
Misc. Murder Plotlets
- local police w/ IQ of a houseplant
Kind of investigator
- amateur citizen investigator
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
Crime plotlets:
- search for valuable art/artifacts
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a lot
Motive of antagonist
- money/treasure
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths?
- 3-4
A lot of techno jargon?
Yes
Kind of jargon?
- mechanical engineering
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- flamed
- perforation--bullets
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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