Another shows up at the vat where grapes are being stomped. Her husband seems also inclined to do the same. Grisella - or Gabrielle, the name she uses at the moment - tells her brother that she is incognito as she is fleeing a Turkish pasha who wishes to do her harm. She is to be the female lead in the opera. Tito and Gussie receive word that Tito's sister, the black sheep of the family, has emerged from obscurity to arrive at the same venue as Tito. The Iron Tongue of Midnight is the fourth novel in Beverle Graves Myers' Baroque Mystery series. Tito's artist brother-in-law Gussie is also invited to paint scenes of the estate's grape harvesting.Ĭurious? But why not? The two men travel to the luxurious villa only to once again find themselves enmeshed in murder. The opera is to be performed in an isolated villa in the hills of the Venetian mainland. It's 1740 and castrato Tito Amato receives an invitation to sing the lead role in German composer Karl Johann Weber's new opera. The Iron Tongue of Midnight: A Baroque Mystery by Beverle Graves Myers
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