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Synopsis
Murder precedes the raising of the curtain on the opening night of a new opera production and Superintendent Nichols moves in to settle the score
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About the Author
Barnard has won nearly every mystery award on offer, including an Anthony, an Agatha, a Macavity, a Dagger In the Library, the Golden Handcuffs, and Britain's prestigious Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in mystery fiction; he has also been nominated for a record eight Edgar Awards.
Review
"One of the deftest stylists in the field . . .goes about it with a quietly malicious sense of humor." --New York Times
"The wryest wit and most scathing satire in today's mystery" --Chicago Sun-Times
"With an eye for the hypocrisy and self-delusion in us all, Barnard's mysteries are funny and acutely observant." --Boston Globe
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- PublisherCollins Crime
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0002312174
- ISBN 13 9780002312172
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages196
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Death on the High C's
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Death on the High C's
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First Edition. Murder mystery irreverently taking on a provincial production of Rigoletto. Spine lean otherwise VG in VG dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 11174
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Author's third novel, both a classic mystery and a "wittily irreverent look at the provincial opera circcuit." SIGNED on the title page. .196 pp. Very good in a very good dust jacket (front flap of dj has been repaired on the interior). Seller Inventory # 66089
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