Ocean State Libraries

David Randall may work for a dead-end detective agency, but he has a talent for finding things. When a music professor is murdered, the only clue is a notebook full of odd musical notations. Warned off the case by the police, he's instead hired by Melanie Gentry, who wants him to prove that her great-grandmother was killed by music legend John Burrows Ashford over authorship of the songs in Patchwork Melodies.

"Murphy Parker is going to be a songwriter – if she can ever find the courage to let anyone hear her music. When Murphy dares to play one of her songs in a music class, she’s shocked by how much her classmates love it. And her. That is, until the next day, when they hear a suspiciously similar tune and accuse Murphy of stealing. Someone is playing Murphy’s music and claiming it as their own. But who? And why? Desperate to clear her name and...

"What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer's block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn's writing talent. When he commits the ultimate betrayal--stealing a draft of her novel and passing it off as his own--Evelyn decides to write her way out of their unhappy marriage....

Fifteen-year-old Ruby is on top of the world after having a novel published, but accusations of plagiarism send her into hiding at her eccentric aunt's home in upstate New York, where she gets involved in an old mystery and finds her true self again.

"Offers an instructional plan for plagiarism education for middle school and high school students, allowing librarians to become a resource for students, teachers, and school administrators"--