{"id":1809,"date":"2020-04-29T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:51:39","slug":"elgar-and-the-music-box-enigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"Elgar and the Music Box Enigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1810\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1810 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RM-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RM-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RM.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With THE MUSIC BOX ENIGMA, R.N. Morris has created a crime novel with special interest for lovers of music. It\u2019s December, 1914. In Hampstead, North London. The Hampstead Voices are rehearsing for a concert to raise funds for Belgian refugees. When the choirmaster is found murdered, DCI Silas Quinn is called in to investigate, aided in this case by a local special constable who has a unique interest in secret codes and music \u2013 Sir Edward Elgar. Morris writes: &#8216;When I discovered that Elgar had indeed volunteered as a special constable in Hampstead in the early months of the war, I realised that I absolutely had to put him in a Silas Quinn novel. His presence naturally suggested a musical setting and theme. I don\u2019t sing in a choir myself, but I have often thought that a choir is a good milieu for a murder story because of the internal politics, the intense relationships, the rivalries and jealousies you find in any large group of people coming together in a creative endeavour.&#8217; (Publisher: Severn House)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With THE MUSIC BOX ENIGMA, R.N. Morris has created a crime novel with special interest for lovers of music. It\u2019s December, 1914. In Hampstead, North London. The Hampstead Voices are rehearsing for a concert to raise funds for Belgian refugees. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-classical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}