The Mahler Mayhem eBook

During a performance of Beethovens Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera there is an explosion in the foyer just off the auditorium. Auguste Rodins famous 1909 bronze bust of composer and conductor Gustav Mahler has been blown up and a hate-filled note has been left at the scene demanding that there be no more Jews defiling our culture. Retired art historian and musicologist Megan Crespi, in Vienna to lecture, is at the performance with her former student, the renowned cellist Egga Streicher, and is asked by her friend, Chief of Police Erich Decker, to help in tracking down the culprit. Soon copy-cat vandalism of Jewish monuments around the city breaks out. Things come to a horrendous climax during a performance of Mahlers great Second Symphony, the Resurrection symphony, but is it the only surprise awaiting Megan Crespis dangerous investigation? Includes Readers Guide.