Requiem for a mezzo
By: Carola Dunn
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Magna large print
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780750531498
Subjects: Daisy Dalrymple (Fictitious character); Fiction; Women journalists; Women singers; Crimes against; History
Description: A show-stopping performance ... With dashing Scotland Yard detective Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy Dalrymple is enjoying a splendid performance of Verdi's Requiem featuring her neighbour Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina, when what emerges from the star's gifted vocal chords is literally a dying gasp. The doomed diva was notoriously difficult and had more than her share of enemies, including a philandering tenor, a burly Russian bass and even her own vocal coach husband, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. Did one of them poison the singer? Or was it someone determined to see that Daisy's investigation ends on as bitter a note as Bettina's last performance ...?
Notes: Adult.