Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

by Wesley Stace

Book Overview

One of The Wall Street Journal's Best fiction books of 2011

England, 1923. A gentleman critic named Leslie Shepherd tells the macabre story of a gifted young composer, Charles Jessold. On the eve of his revolutionary new opera's premiere, Jessold murders his wife and her lover, and then commits suicide in a scenario that strangely echoes the plot of his opera---which Shepherd has helped to write. The opera will never be performed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312680104
• ISBN13: 9780312680107
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"