It reminds me a little of the music from the Professor Layton games. If only my crazy ex hadn't stolen my DS, along with just about everything else physically in that god forsaken apartment. It's my old books I miss the most.
Cities in those days might have actually been pleasant places for humans; after the introduction of sewage systems but before the proliferation of the automobile.
William Harbeck must have been freaked out when he got this back from the drug store, and they'd put the frame in there telling him when he was going to die.