Eleventh standard accounts book12/19/2023 The director, alestrina, has an odd 'secret' of sorts and a coroner is clueless. Letts is wearing a spectacular, priceless neckless. Lett's massive bodygaurd, Higginson, an ex-prizefighter and private detective, oddly leaves Mrs. Sally Cardiff is the 'detective' and without her knowledge of women dressing for an opera or similar event, the real cops may have never solved this one. Letts other than she and the very rich Mr. There are twists! The murder itself is rather standard (2 stars), but the deductions are new to me (4 stars) for a 3 star average for the plot element.ĬAST - 3: We know little about Mrs. But, the murderer may not be a woman after all, as the police initially surmise. A neighbor female in the next box over solves the murder using a woman's mind: the way a woman dresses and/or puts on or removes her buttoned gloves. Letts is stabbed during the first act (perhaps even during the orchestral-screeching overture) while sitting in her private box. PACE - 3: This novella-length work could have been stretched to the limits to novel length by lesser authors, but Starrett obviously understands what material suits which form. Emmanuel B Letts during the sulphurous first act was, of course, unpredictable.<< Such an enticing opening, and a great title - one must keep reading! was by all accounts a sensational music event. HOOK - 3 stars: >"Two circumstances marked the premiere of the new opera as notable, even in anticipation. I didn't know that the musical "Cats" was based on anything but a series of poems/stories written by a singular author, but perhaps the "Cats" producers do give credit to this early Starrett 'Cat Opera.' And third, the name of the Opera in this story is "The Robber Kitten" in which characters apparently dress as cats and the orchestra uses violins to simulate the wailing of said animals. Also, within a few paragraphs of this 1934 publication, often found as "Murder at the Opera", a character uses the term "Get Out!" in the same way we've used it in the early part of the 21st century, as an exclamation, a surprise, or perhaps a denial. Here on goodreads, I traced it to a collection of Starretts work, "The Eleventh Juror and Other Crime Classics." Three oddities caught my attention to this particular novella and I had no other option but to read this given the title: "Bloody Crescendo" is just too good to pass up. I found "The Bloody Crescendo" novella by Vincent Starrett while reading another great Otto Penzler collection, "The Big Book of Female Detectives". Here on goodreads, I traced it to a collection of Starretts work, "The Eleventh Juror and Other Crime Classics." Three oddities caught my attention to this particular novella and I had no other option but to read this given the title: "Bloody Crescendo" is just too good to pas COUNTDOWN: Mid-20th Century North American Crime COUNTDOWN: Mid-20th Century North American Crime BOOK/Novella 161 (of 250) I found "The Bloody Crescendo" novella by Vincent Starrett while reading another great Otto Penzler collection, "The Big Book of Female Detectives".
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