MYSTERY

Much Ado About Murder: A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery

by Elizabeth J. Duncan
Crooked Lane. Nov. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9781683313250. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9781683313267. M
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When costume designer Charlotte Fairfax left Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, she settled in what she thought would be a quiet job in upstate New York with the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company. Now, their star for the season has returned home with health problems, and their director quits over the phone. British actress Audrey Ashley is eager to step into the starring role in Much Ado About Nothing, but she vetoes the first director, proposing her own choice. When the theater board approves his suggestion to stage the play with a Civil War setting, many people are appalled. But who was angry enough at the director to kill him?
VERDICT Duncan's third thespian cozy, following Ill Met by Murder, vividly captures the cutthroat world of the theater. Her likable sleuth is a mature, self-confident woman who will appeal to readers of the author's "Penny Brannigan" books.
Reviewed by Lesa Holstine , Nov 01, 2017
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