Poor Butterfly - Toby Peters, Bk 15 Author:Stuart M. Kaminsky The place is San Francisco. The time is 1942... shortly after America's entry into World War II. And the San Francisco Metropolitan Opera, in concert with superstar conductor Leopold Stokowski, has decided to re-open its long-closed doors with a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. — Local anti-Japanese sentiment --- orc... more »hestrated by the Reverend Adam Souvaine of the Church of the Enlightened Patriots --- threatens the opening of the opera. When a workman falls --- or was he pushed? --- from a high scaffold and a series of notes containing mysterious death threats starts to appear, Stokowski cues battered L.A. private eye Toby Peters to see to it that the show will go on. Peters is willing to search for the Opera's persecutor and make him sign a different tune.« less