Ill Met By Murder : A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery

It's the most important night of the year for the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company: the annual fund-raising performance at the country estate of the wealthy widow Paula Van Dusen. And this year promises to be even more special as the company will give a moonlight performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the wedding celebrations for Paula's daughter, Belinda, and her fiance Adrian. But "e;the course of true love never did run smooth,"e; and in the wake of a disastrous after-party, the stage is set for murder.Hugh Hedley, son of a prominent upstate New York family and Adrian's rival in the cutthroat world of high-end Manhattan real estate, is found murdered with a prop stolen from the play. Mrs. Van Dusen is desperate to keep her daughter's name out of the paper, and so Charlotte Fairfax is drawn into a murder case amid her costume-design responsibilities and finding a home for the company's new theater school.Charlotte nevertheless throws herself into an investigation of shady business deals, a missing dog, and long-buried family secrets because "e;though she be but little, she is fierce!"e;