The Fourth Act

About the Book

Prancing horses, sleek greyhounds, and a charismatic goat add excitement and pageantry to a summer opera festival when animal trainer Dulcy McGuinnesss becomes involved in backstage -- and onstage -- intrigue. Wealthy impresario Rico Farinelli has picked three popular, bloodthirsty operas suitable for showcasing two volatile sopranos: his wife and his mistress. At the suggestion of Dulcy’s lover (the orchestra’s conductor), Rico has hired her to provide the animals for his productions. This scenario, combined with the assorted temperamental and eccentric artists connected with any theatrical undertaking, offers numerous opportunities for mayhem and murder, both staged and for real!

About the Author

BARBARA WEIR recently spent a decade owning an animal talent agency in NYC, providing trained animals for the media in general and for the Metropolitan Opera in particular. She has run dog and cat training seminars (NYC), directed musicals for community theatre (NJ), and judged competitions for the newly popular sport of carriage driving (nationwide). A founder-member of the American Driving Society, and President of the American Tandem Club (two horses nose to tail pulling a carriage), she lives in rural NJ with her husband, two horses and two adopted greyhounds, and is the mother of three grown children.