Used book

[Richard Moody]

> I bought a hardcover mystery book for 50 cents at our library book sale
Anybody else read it? I hope I didn't get gypped

I will offer $1.50 and send an sase.  

Ric McReader

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> From: Mark Graham <magraham@bw.edu>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Used book
> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 11:40 PM
> 
> I bought a hardcover mystery book for 50 cents at our library book sale.
> It's called "The Piano Man", by Noreen Gilpatrick, St. Martin's Press,
> 1991. It's about a concert pianist who goes to a remote island in Puget
> Sound to restore 3 pianos. Ms. Gilpatrick says she patterned it after a
> real piano man on the island named Roger Russell. (Nobody by that name
in
> the PTG directory.) It's mildly interesting. The writing is pretty
corny.
> The descriptions of actually working on the pianos sound as though the
> author talked to somebody about it but knows little herself.
> 
> Probably everybody except me has heard of this book already. The dust
> jacket describes it as the greatest mystery every written, or something
> like that. Anybody else read it? I hope I didn't get gypped.
> 
> Mark Graham
>