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Poor butterfly

Title

Poor butterfly / Stuart M. Kaminsky.

Author

Kaminsky, Stuart M.

Publication

New York : The Mysterious Press, [1990]
©1990

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	PS3561.A43 P6 1990	Off-site

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Description

179 pages; 21 cm

Summary

The year 1942 is a bad time to stage "Madama Butterfly." Although Puccini's masterpiece is a perennial favorite of the San Francisco opera crowd, its sympathetic depiction of a Japanese girl causes tension in the dark months following Pearl Harbor. Newspaper editorialists rage against the production, opera buffs picket the theater, and a note appears nailed to the house door, threatening violence against the cast and crew. When the first workman dies, maestro Leopold Stokowski calls Toby Peters, a Los Angeles detective who works discreetly for Hollywood's rich and famous. Two days remain before the opening night, and the body count continues to rise. As he hunts for this self-styled phantom of the opera, Toby falls for one of the company starlets. They must tread lightly, or risk a death more dramatic than anything Puccini ever dreamed of.

Series Statement

A Toby Peters mystery
Kaminsky, Stuart M. Toby Peters mysteries

Subject

Genre/Form

Historical fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mystery and detective fiction – California – San Francisco Bay Area.

Note

"The Toby Peters mysteries."

ISBN

0892964111
9780892964116

LCCN

89040524

OCLC

ocm21041132
21041132
SCSB-1908074

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library