Hill, John Spencer.

The Last Castrato.

New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm. 269 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Cordelia Sinclair is an American in Florence who becomes embroiled in a series of gruesome murders carried out, it is supposed, by a secret group of idealists who have been trying to revive the glories of renaissance opera including the custom of castrati singing the soprano parts. (from front flap)

Although Hill, a Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, has published three books already this is his first novel.

• Keywords: 19th Century Literature · American Literature · Florence · Italy · Murder · Murder Mystery · Novel · Novelists, American · Opera
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780312131074
• Inventory Number: 60301AB

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