Death at the Opera

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Автор: Митчелл Глэдис

Серия: Mrs Bradley

Язык: английский

Год: 1934

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Аннотация

The staff of Hillmaston School are gathered to choose the next production to be performed by the Musical, Operatic and Dramatic Society. After some argument they agree on The Mikado and, to everyone’s surprise, the meek and self-effacing Arithmetic Mistress Miss Ferris offers to finance the production. In acknowledgement of her generosity she is offered the part of Katisha, which she readily accepts.

The performance starts well, but half-way through Act One it is discovered that ‘Katisha’ is missing. And when she is found dead in the water-lobby it appears that she has been murdered. Mrs. Bradley, the well-known psychoanalyst, is called in to investigate, whereupon she discovers to her surprise that Miss Ferris had quite a number of enemies-all with a motive for murder…