title: Murder in C Major (Missing Mysteries)
author: Sarah Frommer
description: "A chatty, easygoing and conventional first novel....Why C major? Because Schubert's Ninth Symphony, with its great oboe solo in the second movement, is integral to the story.<br />--NYTBR"<br /><br />The author shows a comfortable acquaintance with classical music, orchestral instruments (particularly strings and reeds), state-of-the-art biological research...and people of all sorts. Occasionally one wonders where mystery writers find the prototypes of their characters. Frommer's characters are so lifelike that the question never arises....The story is loaded with cogent information and irresistible characters.<br />--Schenectady, NY Gazette<br /><br />"'Ironing for a corpse wasn't Joan Spencer's idea of fun.' With an opening sentence like that, you surely have to read on. You won't be sorry....""<br />--Washington Post"<br /><br />"Instead of every character being a credible suspect, all seem, like the heroine, to be too nice, too normal, to be evil. Yet the solution is convincing.<br />--Deadly Pleasures"<br /><br />Unpretentious yet nonetheless impressive in its quiet way. . . a virtuoso debut by a new writer.<br />--Washington Post
zlib_text: Report for Murder
  
   _ **Val McDermid**_
  
   _ **L**_ _ **INDSAY**_ _ **G**_ _ **ORDON 01**_
  
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  _SCAN NOTES AND PROOFING HISTORY_
  
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   _ **C**_ _ **ONTENTS**_
  
  PART ONE: OVERTURE
  
  | _1_| _2_| _3_| _4_|
  
  PART TWO: EXPOSITION
  
  | _5_| _6_| _7_| _8_| _9_| _10_| _11_| _12_|
  
  PART THREE: FUGUE
  
  | _13_| _14_| _15_| _16_|
  
  PART FOUR: FINALE
  
  | _17_| _18_| _19_| _20_| _21_|
  
  PART FIVE: CODA
  
  | _22_|
  
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  > This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons living or dead is
  > purely coincidental.
  
  > REPORT FOR MURDER. Copyright © 1987 by Val McDermid. All rights reserved.
  > Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or
  > reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the
  > case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For
  > information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.
  > 10010.
  
  > Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  > McDermid, Val.
  
  > 