Maskerade

by Terry Pratchett

Paperback, 380 pages

Published Jan. 1, 1997 by Corgi Adult.

ISBN:: 978-0-552-14236-6

(15 reviews)

THE BLURB:

The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night...

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...

At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing.

So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)

"Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh" Independent

24 editions

jonn reviewed Maskerade by Terry Pratchett

Everything I wish “The Phantom of the Opera” was. A seriously good detective story.

5 stars

It’s almost impossible not to spoil this one by reviewing, but I’ll say that when I was watching the Phantom of the Opera, I was hoping for non-mystical resolution.

This book is an exemplar detective story, Mrs. Plinge could have just as well be written by Dame Christie and screenplayed by Mr. Horowitz.

Maximum points for detective story and half-a-point extra for, again, keen philosophy and cinematic writing.