title: Death at La Fenice: A Novel of Suspense
author:  Donna Leon 
description: A breathless beginning and an unexpected lack of reference to the lush setting mark this lively launch of a projected series of Venetian mysteries. When legendary German conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room two acts into a performance of La Traviata , police commissario Guido Brunetti is called in. Among those who might have provided the cyanide poison that killed the maestro, immediate suspects include the vaunted conductor's coolly indifferent young wife and those many in the music industry who are offended by his homophobia. Methodically probing into the victim's past, Brunetti also uncovers Wellauer's Nazi sympathies and a lead to a trio of singing sisters from yesteryear--one now destitute, one dead and the other missing. Though burdened by a dictatorial superior and two lumpen subordinates, Brunetti gets help from his aristocratic wife and her well-connected parents. The narrative's best moments involve Brunetti's wry exchanges with his colleagues and the cunningly masked, obvious solution. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  _Also by Donna Leon_
  
  
  Death at La Fenice
  
  
  Death in a Strange Country
  
  
  The Anonymous Venetian
  
  
  A Venetian Reckoning
  
  
  Acqua Alta
  
  
  The Death of Faith
  
  
  A Noble Radiance
  
  
  Fatal Remedies
  
  
  Friends in High Places
  
  
  A Sea of Troubles
  
  
  Wilful Behaviour
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Uniform Justice
  
  
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