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During the tense months following Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco opera house faces violent threats as it stages Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly." With a fatality already on the works, Los Angeles detective Toby Peters, who works discreetly for Hollywood’s elite, is summoned. Over the next two days, as the body count rises, Peters hunts the killer while navigating the drama of the opera and a budding romance with a starlet from the company.
First publish date: 1990
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Stuart M. Kaminsky
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