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Gunther Erdogan, second violinist of the London String Quartet, plots to steal the manuscript of Beethoven’s 10th String Quartet "The Harp" from the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków to settle his debts. But Gunther is fed up with playing second fiddle all his life - as well as fortune, he hopes the manuscript will bring him fame - and win the affections of the quartet’s new cellist, Jennifer Rose.

Katy Green is a working musician in the years before World War II. It's 1939, and Katy tries to help a friend out of a jam at a classical music conservatory that ought to be a quiet oasis in Hell's Kitchen, New York's roughest neighborhood. But when Katy searches for the stolen manuscript of a string quartet by Paganini, what she finds is madness, mayhem, unexplained sudden deaths, and a fight for her very life.