This list of musically-themed mystery novels or short story collections was compiled by the Staff of the Polley Music Library, a specialized department of the Lincoln City Libraries.
Aaronovitch, Ben
Atkins, Ace
Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers mystery – Dirty South: A Nick Travers mystery – Leavin’ Trunk Blues: A Nick Travers mystery
Barnes, Linda
Bartholomew, Nancy
Bastable, Bernard
Beck, K.K.
Cold Smoked – A Hopeless Case – We Interrupt This Broadcast
Cain, James M.
Carter, Charlotte
Coq Au Vin – Drumsticks: A Nanette Hayes mystery – Rhode Island Red
Cartmel, Andrew
The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Wax
Crispin, Edmund
Daheim, Mary
Bantam of the Opera – Saks & Violins: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
Deaver, Jeffery
Dunn, Carola
Dunnett, Dorothy
Farmer, Jerrilyn
Ferrigno, Robert
Friedman, Kinky
Musical Chairs
Frommer, Sara Hoskinson
Buried in Quilts – Murder & Sullivan – Murder in C Major – The Vanishing Violinist
Gilpatrick, Noreen
Goldborough, Robert
Murder in E Minor: A Nero Wolfe mystery
Gollin, James
Broken Consort – Eliza’s Galiardo – The Philomel Foundation – The Verona Passamezzo
Greenwood, Kerry
Gur, Batya
Haines, Carolyn
Hambly, Barbara
Die Upon a Kiss – Fever Season – A Free Man of Color – Graveyard Dust – Sold Down the River
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Grave Music – Orchestrated Death
Hauser, Thomas
The Beethoven Conspiracy
Higgins, Thomas
Higgins, Joan
Jarvis, Fred G.
Jeffers, H. Paul
Joss, Morag
Kallen, Lucille
C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness – C.B. Greenfield: No Lady in the House – C.B. Greenfield: The Piano Bird – C.B. Greenfield: The Tanglewood Murder
Kuhlken, Ken
The Venus Deal
Landrum, Graham
The Sensational Music Club Mystery
Langton, Jane
Divine Inspiration: A Homer Kelly mystery – The Memorial Hall Murder – The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels
Leather, Edwin
The Mozart Score
L’Engle, Madeleine
Leroux, Gaston
Leslie, John
Blue Moon: A Gideon Lowry mystery – Killing Me Softly: A Gideon Lowry mystery – Love For Sale: A Gideon Lowry mystery – Night and Day: A Gideon Lowry mystery
Levinson, Robert S.
The Elvis and Marilyn Affair – The John Lennon Affair
MacLeod, Charlotte
Marsh, Ngaio
McCall, Wendell
McCrumb, Sharon
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
Moody, Bill
Death of a Tenor Man: An Evan Horne mystery – Solo Hand – The Sound of the Trumpet
Myers, Paul
Deadly Cadenza – Deadly Crescendo – Deadly Score – Deadly Sonata – Deadly Variations
O’Marie, Carol Anne
Patterson, James
Paul, Barbara
A Cadenza for Caruso – A Chorus of Detectives – Prima Donna at Large
Peter, Ellis
The Horn of Roland – Where There’s a Will
Peterson, Audrey
Randisi, Robert J.
Hey There (You With the Gun in Your Hand)
Rendell, Ruth
Resnicow, Herbert
Rizer, Fran
Hey, Diddle, Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle
Shankman, Sarah
I Still Miss My Man But My Aim is Getting Better
Skinner, Robert E.
Skin Deep, Blood Red
Slove, Gillian
Death Comes Staccato
Smiley, Jane
Smith, Kay Nolte
Smith, Rosamond
Nemesis
Snyder, Keith
Coffin’s Got the Dead Guy on the Inside: A Jason Keltner mystery – Trouble Comes Back: A Jason Keltner mystery
Stacey, Susannah
Sublett, Jesse
Rock Critic Murders – Tough Baby
Sussman, Susan
Weber, Janice
Frost the Fiddler – Hot Ticket
Westlake, Donald
Wilson, Barbara
The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists