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Article: Bookworm. (book review)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2001
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CAN YOU tell me if there have been any novels written about Mozart, and where I might get hold of them?
Judy Ball, via email THERE have actually been quite a few published over the years, Judy - some more successfully than others.
Popular crime writer Robert Barnard has written a number of whodunits under his nom de plume, Bernard Bastable, which have Mozart spending his adult life in Britain and pursuing his career into a ripe old age.
In Too Many Notes, Mr Mozart (Warner, [pound]5.99), for example, the great composer becomes music tutor to the Princess Victoria and finds himself unraveling a right royal conspiracy when someone tries to poison ...