Death of a Baritone - Softcover

Sturges, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553581287 ISBN 13: 9780553581287

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1999

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Book by Sturges Karen

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Pheobe is thrilled to have her first paying gig at a posh summer opera colony in the Hamptons, but when the baritone keels over and the investigation bogs down with a tricky suspect, the world-weary sleuth is the only one who can hit the high notes. Original.

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ns spent years as a peacemaker between her conductor husband and the music world's most petulant stars. But when she lands a job at an aging diva's opera school, she has no idea that her shrewd knack for diplomacy will be tested once again.

At the exclusive Long Island opera colony of singing legend Anna Varovna, residents are rehearsing their summer production of Così fan tutte. But Phoebe quickly sees that relations offstage are less than cozy, and Mozart's honeyed melodies soon give way to high-decibel melodrama.

Then handsome baritone Frank Palermo is found dead of an allergy to the penicillin pill covertly planted among his vitamins--and Anna urges Phoebe to make some discreet inquiries. Could Frank's recent joining of the Children of Truth cult have somehow earned him an early grave? And why did Frank, clutching his opera score as he died, scratch an X on the name "Amadeus"?

Before Phoebe can make sense of it all, a fatal cacopho

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0553581287
• ISBN 13: 9780553581287
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292