Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, AZ, 2009, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 978-1-59058-672-3.  Trade soft cover, 303 pages including Author’s Note.  Very good plus; touch of edge wear, tiny corner bends; appears unread.  ‘In September 1740, singer Tito Amato receives a curious invitation.  The German composer Karl Johann Weber is rehearsing a new opera at an isolated villa in the hills of the Venetian mainland. … the bucolic mood turns menacing when a notorious figure from Tito’s past turns up at the villa.  Then at the stroke of twelve, a soprano stumbles over a stranger who has been beaten to death with the clock pendulum.’ (from rear wrap)