1635: Murder and Music. Music . It’s been stated that musicians live for another new sound. Well, the music artists of Europe had been presented with the largest new audio ever when the Ring of Open fire brought the future back again to 1631. Exactly what will the courtroom musicians think when they hear Bach, Stravinsky, as well as the Beatles? What will the street and tavern musicians think when faced with Johnny Money, Metallica, and Nirvana? Factors don’t go effortlessly for Marla Linder and her friends. And Murder . . . The Thirty Years Battle was an ‘interesting’ time to become alive, in the proverbial Chinese curse sense of the word. Then Grantville came from the near future, getting technology and philosophies that established European civilization on its hearing. But that’s not all that came back with Grantville. Imagine attempting to establish modern police methods in a period where neither the powers-that-be nor individuals underneath them offer very much support. Up-timer Byron Chieske and his down-timer partner Gotthilf Hoch walk some mean roads and lonely highways.