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S'està carregant… Death on the High C's (1977)de Robert Barnard
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. when a hated singer dies all assume she was the intended victim I liked this book considerably better when I read it in 2007. Eleven years later I found it fairly mean-spirited and the solution weak. A second-class opera company has been seriously disrupted by the addition of a mezzo soprano who is a vulgar, sex-mad, self-centered shrew of a woman. She is murdered and the search for the killer is on. This is an early entry from Robert Bernard, and it shows. The characters aren’t well-developed, the humor is scattershot and the plot is far-fetched and dated. Even so, there are a few signs that Bernard was an author to watch. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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 (though it's a pity her understudy's so lousy). 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. The black tenor tired of being the butt of Gaylene's bigotry? The soprano weary of jealous whispers in her ears? Gaylene's many bedroom conquests, all anxious to avoid a repeat performance? With so many potential suspects, Nichols has his hands full, but Barnard and his readers have a deliciously malicious good time. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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