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Poor butterflyStuart M. Kaminsky

Poor butterfly

Stuart M. Kaminsky
1990223 pages
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Poor Butterfly (Toby Peters #15) by Stuart M. Kaminsky A killer terrorizes the San Francisco opera, and Toby Peters may be his next victim 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, the…

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4 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 1997
    Recorded Books · 9780788708336
  • Audiobook · English · 1996
    Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786110186
  • Other · English · 1990
    Mysterious Press · 179 pages · 9780892964116
  • Other · English · 1990
    Thorndike Press · 9781560540656
Private investigatorsDetective and mystery storiesFictionHistorical fictionToby Peters (Fictitious character)Large type booksCalifornia, fictionHollywood (los angeles, calif.), fiction