A Fatal First Night av Kathleen Marple Kalb

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<b>Set in Gilded Age New York, Kathleen Marple Kalb''s adventurous new historical mystery series returns for its second installment starring the swashbuckling opera singer Ella Shane, an Irish-Jewish Lower East Side orphan who finds fame and fortune singing male "trouser roles." But while her opera company''s latest premier manages to attract adoring crowds and rave reviews, it also attracts a killer who''s a real showstopper...</b><br><br>New York City, Fall 1899. Ahead-of-her-time coloratura mezzo Ella Shane has always known opening night to be a mess of missed cues and jittery nerves, especially when unveiling a new opera. Her production of The Princes in the Tower, based on the mysterious disappearance of Edward IV''s two sons during the Wars of the Roses in England, concludes its first performance to thunderous applause. It''s not until players take their bows that the worst kind of disaster strikes...<br><br>Flawless basso Albert Reuter is found lurched over a bloody body in his