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Accordion crimes

Accordion crimes

Book 1996

Late in the 1800s, a Sicilian craftsman painstakingly designs and builds an exquisite musical instrument that will be his ticket to success in America. As the family prepares to leave on their trip, paralysis incapacitates the man's wife, who must be left behind, but determination carries him on to New Orleans. In a land where immigrants are viewed with contempt and suspicion, the accordion maker is accused of murder and acquitted of the crime--b...