It sounds like a pleasant enough way to spend the summer: out in the Colorado Rockies, at an opera festival in a small mountain town. And, in fact, it really is delightful - until you literally trip over the dead body of your friend's lover. All right, so he was a tenor, but even so...
That's what happens in Elizabeth Dean's comic mystery from 1944, "Murder a Mile High
," the subject of this week's review on the Classic Mysteries podcast. You can listen to the full review here. It's set in Central City, Colorado, at the old opera house. Emma Marsh, the story's central character, is a Boston antiques dealer. She is invited to spend the summer in Central City by her friend, Mary, who is singing a leading role in the Opera House's production of an opera called "The Stolen Bride." Mary has also fallen in love with a tenor. Unfortunately, he turns up dead. And that's when really strange things start to happen. Suffice to say there's a suspected nest of Nazi spies...and a strange old man who seems to run the town (who may or may not be on Emma's side)...and Emma's boyfriend Hank, who's on his way to a job with Army intelligence...
It gets complicated. But it's also a lot of fun.
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