Poor Butterfly

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453251454

<DIV><b>A killer terrorizes the San Francisco opera, and Toby Peters may be his next victim</b></div><BR><DIV>The year 1942 is a bad time to stage <i>Madama Butterfly</i>. Although Puccini&rsquo;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 maestro calls Toby Peters, a Los Angeles detective who works discreetly for Hollywood&rsquo;s rich and famous.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>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.</div>