Summary
William Shakespeare is credited with inventing how many words?*
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings...
Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream --and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful library pages are trying out for parts. Brought in to play the mischievous Puck is the flirtatious professional actor Robbie Vine, who seems to have eyes for Lindsey. Before her blush has faded, the Bard's dream turns into a nightmare--when one of the cast is poisoned. Now Lindsey and her crafternooners must take center stage to unmask the culprit before the final curtain call...
*Over 17,000
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings...
Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream --and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful library pages are trying out for parts. Brought in to play the mischievous Puck is the flirtatious professional actor Robbie Vine, who seems to have eyes for Lindsey. Before her blush has faded, the Bard's dream turns into a nightmare--when one of the cast is poisoned. Now Lindsey and her crafternooners must take center stage to unmask the culprit before the final curtain call...
*Over 17,000
Additional Information
| Series |
McKinlay, Jenn. Library lover's mysteries. #1 - Books can be deceiving #2 - Due or die #3 - Book, line, and sinker #4 - Read it and weep #5 - On borrowed time #6 - A Likely story #7 - Better late than never #8 - Death in the stacks #9 - Hitting the books #10 - Word to the wise #11 - One for the books #12 - Killer research #13 - The Plot and the pendulum |
| Subjects |
Library directors
-- Fiction.
Community theater -- Fiction. Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction. Connecticut -- Fiction. Mystery fiction. |
| Publisher | New York :Berkley Prime Crime,2013 |
| Edition | Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
"Berkley Prime Crime mystery"--Spine. "Includes reading group recommendations"--Page 4 of cover. Includes excerpt from the author's On borrowed time (pages 287-292). |
| Description |
ix, 292 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN | 9780425260722 (paperback) 0425260720 (paperback) |
| Other | Classic View |