When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production ofWagners Die Meistersinger their happiness is soon soured by the discovery thatthe unp... » 

When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production ofWagners Die Meistersinger their happiness is soon soured by the discovery thatthe unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyoneinvolved has reason to loathe Shorthouse but who amongst them has the fiendishingenuity to kill him? «