Several novels have used the Savoy operas as backdrop for a detective story. "Death at the Opera" by Gladys Mitchell (1934) involves a murder during a production of "The Mikado". In "Pirate King" by Laurie R. King (2011), one of the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, a production company is making a silent film of "The Pirates of Penzance". Other murder mysteries include "The Ghosts' High Noon" by John Dickson Carr (1969), named for the song of the same name in "Ruddigore"; "The West End Horror", by Nicholas Meyer, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche involving a production of "The Grand Duke" (1976); "The Plain Old Man" by Charlotte MacLeod (1985; "The Sorcerer"); "Perish in July" by Mollie Hardwick (1989; "Yeomen") "Ruddy Gore" by Kerry Greenwood (a Phryne Fisher book, 1995; "Ruddigore"); "Murder and Sullivan" by Sara Hoskinson Frommer (1997; "Ruddigore"); "Death of a Pooh-Bah" by Karen Sturges (2000; "Mikado"). and "Vengeance Dire" by Roberta Morrell (2001; "Pirates");