Death on the High C's (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) - Softcover

Barnard, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933397055 ISBN 13: 9781933397054

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2005

Synopsis

Opera singers are often described as being larger than life, and certainly this is true of Gaylene Ffrench. Her appetites?for men, for food, for attention?are gargantuan, and her ability to irritate is similarly outsized. So when someone electrocutes the bombastic Australian contralto, few tears are shed at the Northern Opera Company. In fact, most of the company members are dancing a jig, and it falls on Superintendent Nichols to determine which of them might have helped Gaylene along to her just reward. With so many potential suspects, Nichols has his hands full, but Barnard and his readers have a deliciously malicious good time.

About this title

About the Author:

Barnard has won nearly every mystery award on offer, including an Anthony, an Agatha, a Macavity, a Dagger In the Library, the Golden Handcuffs, and Britain's prestigious Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in mystery fiction; he has also been nominated for a record eight Edgar Awards.

Review:

"One of the deftest stylists in the field . . .goes about it with a quietly malicious sense of humor." --New York Times

"The wryest wit and most scathing satire in today's mystery" --Chicago Sun-Times

"With an eye for the hypocrisy and self-delusion in us all, Barnard's mysteries are funny and acutely observant." --Boston Globe

About this edition

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1933397055
• ISBN 13: 9781933397054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216