Sword and Song — Roz Southey

Musician-sleuth Charles Patterson is called to a suspected murder late one night - and is horrified to find he is acquainted with the victim, a young street-girl. But Patterson is already booked for a fashionable house party outside of town and where Patterson goes, trouble is never far behind. A chance meeting with an American at the house party raises new questions about the murder - then he is attacked twice for no apparent reason. Furthermore, his personal life, involving Esther Jerdoun, the wealthy woman he loves against all of society's conventions, is becoming more and more complicated.