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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about California, Santa, San with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Maskerade'
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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Maskerade about Opera, Ankh-Morpork, meddling with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense
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conversations.value: There are strange goings-on at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork. A ghost in a white mask is murdering, well, quite a lot of people, and two witches (it really isn't wise to call them "meddling, interfering old baggages"), or perhaps three, take a hand in unraveling the mystery. Fans of the popular Discworld will be happy to see some old friends again in Maskerade , the 18th novel in the series. --Blaise Selby
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conversations.value: a plot for a book titled Maskerade
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conversations.value: Maskerade (film): The film is set in Viennese high society of about 1900.\nAfter a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt (Hilde von Stolz), wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt (), allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick (Adolf Wohlbrück) to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff.\nThis muff however belongs to Anita Keller (Olga Tschechowa), in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt (Walter Janssen), the brother of Gerda's husband.\nThe picture is published in the newspaper.\nWhen Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some searching questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model.\nLeopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman (Paula Wessely), whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.\nThis makes his lover Anita so jealous that she shoots him.\nHe survives, and Leopoldine nurses him back to health, in the course of which they fall in love.\nThe true identity of the sitter in the portrait remains a mystery, however.
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conversations.value: a plot for a book titled Maskerade about Opera, Ankh-Morpork, meddling with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense
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conversations.value: Maskerade: The story begins with Agnes Nitt leaving Lancre to seek a career at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork.\nWhen Granny Weatherwax realizes Nanny Ogg has written an immensely popular cookbook but has not been paid by the publisher, the witches also leave for Ankh-Morpork to collect the money, as well as to attempt to recruit Agnes into their coven, to replace Magrat Garlick who left the coven when she became Queen of Lancre (in Lords and Ladies).\nThis has the side benefit of distracting Granny from becoming obsessive and self-centered, or so Nanny believes to her great relief.\nAgnes Nitt is chosen as a member of the chorus, where she meets Christine, a more popular but less talented girl.\nThe Opera House Ghost, who has long haunted the opera house without much incident, begins to commit seemingly random murders staged as "accidents", and also requests that Christine be given lead roles in several upcoming productions.\nDue to her incredibly powerful and versatile voice, Agnes is asked to sing the parts from the background, unbeknownst to Christine or the audience.\nHaving discovered the problems at the opera house and also having coerced the publisher to pay Nanny richly for her book, the witches investigate the mystery, with Granny posing as a rich patron, and Nanny insinuating herself into the opera house staff.\nAgnes unmasks Walter Plinge, the janitor, as the ghost, though as he is seemingly harmless, the others are unconvinced.\nAnother employee is suspected, but turns out to be a member of the Cable Street Particulars.\nThe witches determine that the finances of the Opera House, which are a complete mess, have been made so intentionally in order to hide the fact that money is being stolen, with the murders being used either as a distraction or to cover evidence.\nIt is finally revealed that two people had been masquerading as the ghost.\nThe original (and harmless) ghost, Walter Plinge, was being psychologically manipulated by the second ghost, Mr Salzella (Director of Music at the Opera House), who assumed the identity to commit the murders and theft.\nWith the witches\' help, Walter is able to overcome his fears and help defeat the murderer, who is killed by believing that the fencing staged in opera is actual lethal swordplay, dying despite not actually being injured.\nWalter then goes on to become the new Director of Music, integrating his own music into the opera, turning them into musicals.