by Gerald Elias
The more books I write, the more I appreciate the team effort involved in getting the rough manuscripts into a form suitable for public consumption. So my hat is again off to my editor, Michael Homler, and the rest of the St. Martin’s staff, including fellow musician and production editor Geraldine Van Dusen, Bridget Hartzler for arranging gratifying book tours, Monica Katz and Andrew Etzkorn for getting my stories onto the bookshelves, and the graphics team for creating such imaginatively intriguing book jackets. Special thanks to Cynthia Merman for all the lively give-and-take through the copyediting process, who keeps the bar high and requires me to convince the reader that Jacobus’s bad jokes are his and not mine. Major thanks, as always, goes to my agent, Josh Getzler, at Russell and Volkening, for making it all happen.
Finally, I express my loving appreciation to various members of my family: to my father, Irving, who passed down to me when I was a mere tyke the “Doughnut Song” and “Around the Corner” from earlier generations of Eliases (you can be certain my own children have memorized them); to my brother, Arthur, and sister, Estelle, for traumatizing me in my childhood with the dead finger trick; to my daughter, Kate, an exceptional modern dancer and human being, who opened my eyes to the potential of dance as an art form; and of course to my wife, Cecily, and both of my kids, Kate and Jacob, for their candid critiques and their ongoing encouragement and support.
ALSO BY GERALD ELIAS
Devil’s Trill
Danse Macabre
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. Copyright © 2011 by Gerald Elias. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Elias, Gerald.
Death and the maiden : a Daniel Jacobus mystery / Gerald Elias.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-67834-0 (hardback)
1. Violinists—Fiction. 2. Blind teachers—Fiction. 3. Musicians—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3605.L389D43 2011
813'.6—dc22
2011018778
First Edition: September 2011
eISBN 978-1-4299-7298-7
First Minotaur Books eBook Edition: August 2011
