Research Catalog

Title

The Metropolitan Opera murders / Helen Traubel ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Leslie S. Klinger.

Author

Traubel, Helen

Publication

Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press in association with the Library of Congress, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

Klinger, Leslie S.

Description

xi, 194 pages : illustration; 22 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Library of Congress crime classics

Uniform Title

Library of Congress crime classics.

Subject

• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Opera > Fiction
• Murder > Investigation > Fiction
• Tenors (Singers) > Crimes against > Fiction
• Malicious mischief > Fiction
• Opera

Genre/Form

• Detective and mystery fiction.
• Fiction.
• Novels.

Note

• "This edition of The Metropolitan Opera Murders is based on the first edition in the Library of Congress's collection, originally published in 1951 by Simon and Schuster."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFD 22-1335

ISBN

• 9781464215902
• 1464215901

LCCN

2021037057

OCLC

1250308262

Author

Traubel, Helen, author.

Title

The Metropolitan Opera murders / Helen Traubel ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Leslie S. Klinger.

Publisher

Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press in association with the Library of Congress, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of Congress crime classics

Library of Congress crime classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Klinger, Leslie S., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Traubel, Helen. Metropolitan Opera murders Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press in association with the Library of Congress, 2022 9781464215919 (DLC) 2021037058

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1335