MURDER AT THE OPERA

作者: Margaret Truman 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2011-12

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780345478221

定价: 69.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 381页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>小说

　　Margaret Truman, who knows where all the bodies are buriedinside the Beltway, has written her most thrilling novel ofsuspense yet. Murder at the Opera features the popularcrime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife, Annabel Reed-Smith,as they navigate the glitz, glamour, and grime that is Washington,D.C. It ain't over till the fat lady sings . . . but the showhasn't even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano inquestion, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, wasscarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when theaspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage duringrehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage. Georgetown lawprofessor Mac Smith thought he'd just be carrying a rapier in Toscaas a favor for his beloved Annabel, but now they're both beingpressured by the panicked theater board to unmask a killer.Providing accompaniment will be former homicide detective, currentP.I., and eternal opera fan Raymond Pawkins. Soon the Smiths findthemselves dangerously improvising among an expanding cast ofsuspects with all sorts of scores to settle. What they uncover isan increasingly complex case reaching far beyond Washington to adark world of informers and terror alerts in Iraq, and climaxing ona fateful night at the opera attended by none other than thePresident himself. "From the Hardcover edition."
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　　Margaret Truman, who knows where all the bodies are buriedinside the Beltway, has written her most thrilling novel ofsuspense yet. Murder at the Opera features the popularcrime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife, Annabel Reed-Smith,as they navigate the glitz, glamour, and grime that is Washington,D.C. It ain't over till the fat lady sings . . . but the showhasn't even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano inquestion, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, wasscarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when theaspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage duringrehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage. Georgetown lawprofessor Mac Smith thought he'd just be carrying a rapier in Toscaas a favor for his beloved Annabel, but now they're both beingpressured by the panicked theater board to unmask a killer.Providing accompaniment will be former homicide detective, currentP.I., and eternal opera fan Raymond Pawkins. Soon the Smiths findthemselves dangerously improvising among an expanding cast ofsuspects with all sorts of scores to settle. What they uncover isan increasingly complex case reaching far beyond Washington to adark world of informers and terror alerts in Iraq, and climaxing ona fateful night at the opera attended by none other than thePresident himself. "From the Hardcover edition."

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