An entertaining theatrical mystery When Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood drama. The play's the thing wherein the curtain falls on grande dame Corinne Webster. While fingers point at Annie, the perpetrator lurks within the genteel cast of Murder-Most-Make-Believe... and Annie has a race to find out who it is. Annie is asked to stage a murder for the annual spring house tour sponsored by the Historical Society of Chastain, South Carolina. Her only problem is deciding which fictional murder to stage--until a corpse turns up in the town pond. The second Annie Laurance/Max Darling novel. Original.