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Who killed Gregor Wilchenski, internationally famous pianist, in the New York home of his wife from whom he had been separated for years? Not that anybody cares much, aside from the police and a few devoted music lovers, for Gregor was not a nice person. Gregor, who is making his first visit to New York in twenty-five years, is found dead at the piano in the room he has appropriated to his own in the home of his estranged wife. Beside him, on the floor, is another corpse. That of a man well known to the police as having some connection with the traffic in narcotics. Inspector Schmidt, who knows nothing at all about music, but a great deal about crime, arrives on the scene accompanied by a young man who is doing some ghost writing for him. It is this man, by the way, who tells the story. At first, he is inclined to belittle the inspector because of the latter's obvious lack of refinement and his frankly expressed ignorance. Originally published in 1935 this was George Bagby's first mystery novel.

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"Aaron Marc Stein (1906-1985), who used the pen name George Bagby, was an American novelist who specialized in mystery fiction. Bagby's focus was on police investigators, especially the fictional Inspector Schmidt, Chief of Homicide for the New York Police Department. In the Schmidt novels, mystery-writer Bagby himself appears as ""the Watson to Schmidt's Holmes, following him on cases, and acting as ""biographer.""Stein was born in New York City, attended Princeton University, graduating with a degree in archaeology. His early novels were published, but he did not gain much fame till he moved into writing mysteries. In addition to Bagby, he also published mystery novels under his own name, and under the pseudonym Hampton Stone.Over 100 novels by Stein eventually saw publication, and for his lifetime achievements the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master at the 1979 Edgar Awards."

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