TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickinson,David
TI  - Death comes to the Ballets Russes
T2  - A Lord Francis Powerscourt mystery
SN  - 9781472113757
PY  - 2015///
PB  - Constable
KW  - Ballets russes
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Powerscourt, Francis, Lord (Fictitious character)
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - England
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
N2  - London, 1912, and the famed Ballet Russes have come to London to perform. Anticipation is high, for Diaghilev's troupe is renowned throughout Europe. At the end of their famed performance of Thamar at the Royal Opera House, the Georgian queen stabs her prince to death and throws him into the river. But life mirrors art when the prince is found truly dead, stabbed through the heart in the orchestra pit below stage. But the corpse is not the dancer in the programme. It is his understudy. Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. But
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