title: The Film of Murder in The Cathedral
author: T. S. Eliot
description: First Edition, second state binding. VG+ with a slight spine lean and toning to the upper and lower edges of the boards. Former owner's name written in pencil at the upper right corner of the front fly. DJ is heavily tanned and is chipped at the head and at the heel of the spine.
zlib_text: MURDER AT THE OPERA
  
  AN ATLAS CATESBY MYSTERY
  
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  D. M. Quincy
  
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  _For Sameer, who possesses Atlas’s finest attributes_
  
    
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
  They emerged from the Covent Garden theater just as the black sky erupted
  again, spewing cold rain onto the mud-slogged streets like a frigid volcano.
  
  Atlas Catesby had neglected to button his overcoat and regretted the oversight
  the moment the icy dampness sliced through him. It felt as though it had been
  raining for a year.
  
  Hunching against the elements, he hoisted his black umbrella high above Lady
  Lilliana Sterling Warwick’s hooded form to shield her from the downpour. Fat
  rivulets of rain clung precariously to the umbrella’s edge before dripping
  onto the rim of Atlas’s black beaver top hat, dangling momentarily and then
  plopping onto his cheeks and racing down to his chin as he hastened Lilliana
  to the waiting carriage.
  
  Around them, hundreds of fellow theatergoers poured out of the building.
  