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Reading for a Rainy Day: Short Stories by John Hartig

Reading for a Rainy Day: Short Stories by John Hartig

Hartig, John

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 109311536X
ISBN13: 9781093115369
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 7 2019
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is a collection of 2 short stories by John Hartig. The first is Battle of the Violins about time travel. Fast forward to the year 2328, and the task which Captain James T. Kirk has been assigned to bring back to the future 6 of the best violinists of all time to have a fiddle contest at the Hollywood Bowl. The slight hitch is that the Captain with Montgomery Scott's help needs to go back to 1901 and borrow H. G. Wells' Time Machine. One of the contenders in the Battle of the Violins is, of course, Jean-Marie Leclair! That leads into the second short story, actually a novella about a murder mystery of the 18th century. Jean-Marie Leclair was an excellent Baroque Era violinist and composer who was stabbed to death in 1764. He should be remembered for his music, not being murdered. He founded the French school of violin. But he was killed in the vestibule of his own home. He was a great violinist and composer for King Louis XV of France. No one was ever arrested, not Louise Roussel, his ex-wife, who did the engraving of his compositions for him, and not the envious nephew, Guillaume-François Vial, who wanted his uncle to promote him to the KIng. Nobody was ever brought to justice. These two short stories make for great reading with a cup of coffee and a cookie!

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