![]() With the local constable away on a boar hunt, the midnight murderer strikes with impunity, raising terror to a fevered crescendo. That night, at the stroke of midnight, a soprano stumbles over a stranger who has been beaten to death with the clock pendulum. The two men find the countryside awash with the golden hues of autumn, but the bucolic mood soon turns menacing when a notorious figure from Tito's past arrives at the villa. Artist Gussie Rumbolt, Tito's friend and brother-in-law, has also been summoned to paint scenes of the estate's grape harvest. Puzzled by the air of secrecy that encircles the production, but attracted by a generous fee, Tito agrees. The German composer Karl Johann Weber is rehearsing a new opera at an isolated villa nestled in the hills of the Venetian mainland. ![]() September 1740: Tito receives a curious invitation. ![]() Listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction, The Iron Tongue of Midnight (2008) by Beverle Graves Myers is the fourth novel in the Baroque Mystery series featuring Tito Amato. ![]()
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