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Bezig met laden... The Metropolitan Opera Murders (1951)door Helen Traubel, Harold Q. Masur (Auteur)
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"A scandalous and satisfying behind-the-scenes look at the glamorous world of opera, from an insider who was herself the lead soprano at the Met for many years, and a popular performer on radio and television. The backstage drama at the Metropolitan Opera often rivals the onstage performances but generally doesn't prove fatal. Not so for prompter Rudolf Salz, who chose a most inopportune moment during the second act of Wagner's Die Walküre to die of strychnine poisoning-directly in view of the star of the opera, Elsa Vaughn. Not surprisingly, she misses a note or two. When Detective-Lieutenant Sam Quentin arrives on the scene, he learns that the poison was in a bottle of scotch whiskey pilfered from Miss Vaughn's dressing room. Was she the intended victim? Several attempts had been made recently to harm the soprano-ground glass in her cold cream, toppling scenery, flowers treated to induce an allergic reaction. Was this all the work of her understudy, the very ambitious Miss Hilda Semple? Or was the poison truly intended for Salz, an embittered former Wagnerian tenor, once world-famous, and now reduced to coaching other singers? When a second murder takes place, Vaughn can no longer deny that she may be a target"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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A "contextual" Introduction and explanatory footnotes help the reader put the book in perspective. (One revelation is that it was ghostwritten by Harold Q. Masur, a writer of several crime novels).
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