Overview
An age of reckless pleasures, playful artifice, baroque excess, and murder... Venice, 1745, is an age of reckless pleasures, playful artifice, and baroque excess. An accident has reduced Tito Amato's glorious singing voice to a husky croak. But now the male soprano is determined to prove himself as a director. As the Teatro San Marco is losing subscribers to a rival company, the theater's Maestro Torani charges Tito with locating the perfect opera to fill the seats in time for Carnival. Surprisingly, a second-rate composer provides the very thing-an opera so replete with gorgeous melodies the public speculates it was written by the late Antonio Vivaldi. Even more disconcerting are the rumors swirling around Angeletto, a male soprano imported from Naples to sing the lead. Is the singer truly a castrato or a female soprano engaging in a daring but lucrative masquerade? Both matters turn dangerous when Maestro Torani is viciously attacked and killed. And Tito is the prime suspect. His own life as well as the future of Teatro San Marco now depend on his skills as a sleuth....
Full Product Details
Author: Beverle Myers
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.308kg
ISBN: 9781464202100
ISBN 10: 1464202109
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 February 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
As ever, Myers bring 18th-century Venice to vivid life. -- Publishers Weekly review of The Iron Tongue of Midnight <br><br> The real accomplishment of Myers is her rendering of 18th-century Venice -- Kirkus Reviews on Her Deadly Mischief An accomplished historical novel that's also a classic country-house mystery. -- Kirkus Reviews on The Iron Tongue of Midnight <br>
As ever, Myers bring 18th-century Venice to vivid life. -- Publishers Weekly review of The Iron Tongue of Midnight
As ever, Myers bring 18th-century Venice to vivid life. -- Publishers Weekly review of The Iron Tongue of Midnight The real accomplishment of Myers is her rendering of 18th-century Venice -- Kirkus Reviews on Her Deadly Mischief An accomplished historical novel that's also a classic country-house mystery. -- Kirkus Reviews on The Iron Tongue of Midnight
Author Information
Beverle Graves Myers combines a love of Italy, mystery, and opera in her Tito Amato novels featuring an 18th-century singer-sleuth. The latest title in the six-book series is Whispers of Vivaldi. With Joanne Dobson, she has also co-authored Face of the Enemy, a stand-alone mystery set in New York City on the eve of World War II. Beverle and husband Lawrence divide their time between Kentucky and Florida.
