by Lyn Stone
In Victorian England, Jonathan Chadwick, a musical genius thought to be wickedly arrogant, tries to outwit gossip columnist Kathryn Wainwright, by pretending to be the idiot savant, Pip. Mix in a Stradivarius, a dead mother who left a painful legacy for her son, a lost fortune, some maiming, and a couple of villains, and there's plenty of potential diversion. While some of it pans out, the rest isn't so much...
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