Costume designer Charlotte Fairfax has another murder on her
hands as she prepares for the latest performance of the
Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company, Much Ado About
Nothing. The company’s steady growth enables them to
cast star British actress Audrey Ashley, who arrives on
scene to play the lead role of Beatrice. But things
immediately get more complicated when Audrey insists the
company replace the current director with new, up and coming
British director Edmund Albright.
Edmund plans to
change the popular romantic comedy, which alienates several
people associated with the production. And the list of
people he upsets only grows: the laid off former director,
the hotel owner’s secretary, and even Audrey herself. Just
as Edmund’s plans are about to come to fruition, his body is
discovered on his sofa, holding a gun in his hand. His death
is quickly ruled a suicide but Charlotte thinks otherwise.
Why would Edmund, on the brink of greatness, kill himself?
And in such an American way?
With a whole cast of
characters to investigate, Charlotte is determined to unmask
each one before it’s final curtain call on the whole
production in award-winning author Elizabeth J. Duncan’s
third Shakespeare in the Catskills mystery, Much Ado
About Murder.