Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
In the mountains of Czechoslovakia, a possible murder has Dominic Felse suspicious of everyone -- including his friend, the dead man's beautiful stepdaughter.

Theodosia Barber had been planning to spend her summer vacation in Europe in any case, so what could be simpler than persuading her travel companions to make a minor detour to the scene of the crime?

Bewitched by Theodosia's beautiful brown eyes and blissfully unaware of her real motives, Dominic Felse cannot refuse her plea for a change of plan. And he's certainly not prepared for their innocent touring holiday to become a murder investigation, with Theodosia in grave danger of becoming another unlikely victim... .

The Piper on the Mountain is the 5th book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain. The Felse Investigations. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504027106 (December, 2015), eBook, 6.70MB (ca. 192 p.), $8.99.

Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain (USA 1996)

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Czech Into Murder...
The death of unpopular Herbert Terrell seems accidental-although this expert mountain climber plunged off a mere hill in Czechoslovakia. The saddest part of the tragedy is that no one cares, not his ex-wife, his step daughter Tossa at Oxford, or his colleagues at a British scientific institute... until Tossa is shocked into emotion by a mysterious note suggesting Terrell was murdered.

Now Tossa's long-planned European holiday with college friends, including Dominic Felse, becomes a hunt for a killer. Crossing into an Eastern Europe of dark intrigue and sinister strangers, the high-spirited group is unwittingly on a road to danger. But Dominic, who learned the art of detection from his policeman father, Inspector George Felse, realizes someone else may die unless he finds the truth about a Czech piper, a mountain hideaway, and Terrell's final fall.

By the creator of the wonderful Brother Cadfael Medieval mysteries, this contemporary whodunit is available to American readers for the first time in paperback -- a tale rich with Ellis Peters's genius for settings, unique characters, and riveting plots.

Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain. An Inspector George Felse Mystery. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446400718 (March, 1996), 202 p., $5.99.

Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain (UK 1989 / 5th printing)

From the Publisher:
When Herbert Terrell talls off a mountain during his annual climbing holiday in Czechoslovakia, accidental death seems the inevitable verdict. But Terrell's young step-daughter, Tossa, is not the type to bow to the inevitable. She'd been planning to spend her summer vacation in Europe in any case, so what could be simpler than to persuade her companions to make a minor detour to the scene of the crime?

Not a little bewitched by. Tossa's brown eyes, Dominic Felse is game for a change of plan, though he doesn't at first suspect her real motive. And he's certainly not prepared for their innocent touring holiday to become a deadly game of cat and mouse, with Tossa herself the unlikely victim...

A fragment of an English folk song, the plaintive ament of a pipe, an unexpected corpse - these are the clues that the amateur sleuths must solve to discover the riddle of the piper on the mountain.

Also by Ellis Peters and available from Headline
MOURNING RAGA
DEATH TO THE LANDLORDS

Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain. Dominic Felse Investigates. Headline, ISBN: 0747232261 (February, 1989 / 5th printing, no date given), 192 p., £2.99.

Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain (USA 1968)

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A gripping novel of international espionage "that merits the popularity of a Helen MacInnes adventure." -- Alice Cromie Chicago Tribune

"I've never touched a gun, never in my life!" Tossa shouted for the third time.
The police inspector said nothing, dragging the moment into agonizing silence.
Tossa Barber, vacationing in Czechoslovakia, never dreamed she would be accused of the murder of her stepfather. To make matters worse, an eyewitness swore that he saw her at the scene of the crime.
"If you really believe I had a gun, then where is it now?" she cried hysterically.
Finally, Inspector Ondrejov spoke. "My dear Miss Barber, the valley is large enough and the night by then was dark enough, to make it a very open question indeed."
"But I loved my stepfather, why would I kill him?" she sobbed.
"I'm sorry, Tossa," he said, "but you're under arrest."

"THRILLING, MORE-THAN-SPY NOVEL"
Anthony Boucher, New York Times

Ellis Peters: The Piper on the Mountain. A Lancer Romantic Spy Thriller. New York: Lancer Books, 1968, Lancer Books #7364, 192 p., ¢60.