Poor Butterfly Toby Peters Mystery Series, Book 15.

A 1940s Hollywood gumshoe heads to San Francisco to foil a very real phantom of the opera in this "believable and entertaining" mystery ( Publishers Weekly ). 1942 is a dangerous year to stage Madama Butterfly . Although Puccini's masterpiece is a perennial favorite of the San Francisco opera crowd, its sympathetic depiction of a Japanese girl causes tension a year after Pearl Harbor. Newspaper editorialists rage against the production, oper...