{"product_id":"the-coffee-garden-a-musical-mystery-featuring-johann-sebastian-bach-paperback","title":"The Coffee Garden: A Musical Mystery Featuring Johann Sebastian Bach - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames y. Bartlett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBach is back and investigating another musical mystery!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this second novel in the Bach Musical Mystery series, award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has taken the real-life incident that Bach scholars call 'the Prefect Affair' and kicked it up a few notches into a musical whodunit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bach's First Prefect - the student leader at the St. Thomas School in charge of the main choir - suddenly disappears after an ugly incident at a wedding, the school's headmaster moves to appoint his favorite student to the position, over Bach's objections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the City Council mulls over the conflict between the two, Bach, his cousin and advisor Elias Bach and Bach's wife Anna Magdalena Bach search Leipzig for the missing boy. All while Bach is preparing for the summer concert series he conducts in the Coffee Garden outside the city walls. And his daughter D?rte begins a friendship with a controversial woman poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end, truth becomes known, scores are settled, and Bach conducts a triumphant concert in the Coffee Garden before the King himself, featuring Anna Magdalena, once a promising professional singer herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBach scholars' heads may explode over Bartlett's audacity in creating this new Bach persona, but music and mystery lovers alike will delight in this contrapuntal story set in 18\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 230\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44210259001479,"sku":"9798988194330","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/kfUCoN_VKb9798988194330.webp?v=1773694230","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-coffee-garden-a-musical-mystery-featuring-johann-sebastian-bach-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}