Kerry Greenwood's Ruddy Gore
The 7th Phryne Fisher book has Phryne and the local police investigating a murder that took place during a performance of a lesser Gilbert and Sullivan show. Ah, theatre folk. I found this one especially amusing, having been unwillingly exposed to Gilbert and Sullivan in my youth (I still know snatches of songs from HMS Pinafore, our 8th-grade operetta. Yes, I went to a school that had 8th-grade operettas). There's also an interesting subplot involving the Chinese community in Melbourne. Greenwood loves to throw in some social consciousness! (I'm not really complaining about that. Phryne is totally an Orientalist though.) A-.
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