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The Double Bass Player: From child prodigy to serial murder
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The world-famous double bass player Dimitri Sachow escapes from prison one morning. His career path is unusual: from child prodigy to serial murderer.
A melody is Inspector Schrenk's first point of reference. In order to prevent further murders by the psychopathic virtuoso, Schrenk enters into a strange musical world.
A bizarre composer, a fictitious concerto, and a father obsessed with perfection, lead him to the scene of the last gruesome murder.
The short crime story 'The Double Bass Player' reflects some of the more bizarre facets of the modern cultural world.The world-famous double bass player Dimitri Sachow escapes from prison one morning. His career path is unusual: from child prodigy to serial murderer.
A melody is Inspector Schrenk's first point of reference. In order to prevent further murders by the psychopathic virtuoso, Schrenk enters into a strange musical world.
A bizarre composer, a fictitious concerto, and a father obsessed with perfection, lead him to the scene of the last gruesome murder.
The short crime story 'The Double Bass Player' reflects some of the more bizarre facets of the modern cultural world.
A melody is Inspector Schrenk's first point of reference. In order to prevent further murders by the psychopathic virtuoso, Schrenk enters into a strange musical world.
A bizarre composer, a fictitious concerto, and a father obsessed with perfection, lead him to the scene of the last gruesome murder.
The short crime story 'The Double Bass Player' reflects some of the more bizarre facets of the modern cultural world.The world-famous double bass player Dimitri Sachow escapes from prison one morning. His career path is unusual: from child prodigy to serial murderer.
A melody is Inspector Schrenk's first point of reference. In order to prevent further murders by the psychopathic virtuoso, Schrenk enters into a strange musical world.
A bizarre composer, a fictitious concerto, and a father obsessed with perfection, lead him to the scene of the last gruesome murder.
The short crime story 'The Double Bass Player' reflects some of the more bizarre facets of the modern cultural world.
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The Double Bass Player - Adrian Thome
The Double Bass Player
An Inspector Schrenk Story
by Adrian Thomé
Please note: American English spelling is used in this book.
Table of Contents
The Double Bass Player
About the story
1. A Child Prodigy - The Freedom of Imprisonment
2. The Escape - Act 1
3. A psychogram - the two worlds of music
4. Gifted - return to the unknown
5. Pianissimo - everything we hear is music!
6. Paternal love - an eye for an eye, an ear for an ear
7. Tak tak tak - there can only be one
8. The bait -preparing the trap
9. Making a musical instrument - cold steel for a warm sound
10. The measure of all things - a performance to be remembered forever
11. The bait - Symphony in D major
12. Practice! Amateurs pollute the air!
13. The interval - play for your life
14. Solo - the final concert
15. Shock - a thousand deaths without a solo
About the author
Imprint
About the story
The world-famous double bass player Dimitri Sachow escapes from prison one morning. His career path is unusual: from child prodigy to serial murderer.
A melody is Inspector Schrenk's first point of reference. In order to prevent further murders by the psychopathic virtuoso, Schrenk enters into a strange musical world.
A bizarre composer, a fictitious concerto, and a father obsessed with perfection, lead him to the scene of the last gruesome murder.
The short crime story 'The Double Bass Player' reflects some of the more bizarre facets of the modern cultural world.
1. A Child Prodigy - The Freedom of Imprisonment
‘Sachow wasn’t our average inmate,’ prison director Schlosser explained to Inspector Schrenk.
‘He just isn’t up to the job’, Schrenk thought to himself. It had been obvious that one day or another one of his prisoners would manage to escape.
‘He spent his time here like a lamb among wolves,’ Schlosser continued. ‘Instead of leading a bleak existence like the rest of the inmates, he’d sit in the library composing.’
‘How could you grant a psychopath like Sachow so many liberties?’ Inspector Schrenk asked. He rejected Schlosser’s fashionable rehabilitation methods. In fact, he struggled with everything modern. ‘Sachow is a mad serial killer, and you let him roam the prison park unattended. You could have just as well sent him off on a sightseeing tour!’
‘There are prisoners who’ll spit you
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