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Synopsis

Aging theatre actor Torald Werness's last curtain call is as a corpse -- and Minneapolis restauranteur-sleuth Jane Lawless is the one who finds him, onstage, impaled on a part of the set. And not only that, she's a suspect in the murder, having recently accused him of burglary. To clear her name, Jane and her best friend Cordelia go looking for the killer in the dead man's family, a glamorous -- and appropriately melodramatic -- Midwestern theatrical dynasty. It's a wonderfully compelling, juicy early mystery from one of the genre's best.