num_pages: 226
description: Everyone--including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace.  But something wicked is poisoned a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged.  Worst of all, the star, aging Hollywood beach-blanket hunk Shane Petree, butchers his lines--while getting top billing in bed with wives and teenage daughters around town.  No wonder somebody wants to draw his final curtain.  With a little help from Miss Marple, Poirot, and Agatha the Bookstore Cat, a pompous prosecutor tries to pin a murder on Max, Annie's own leading man.  Unless Annie can prove her darling's innocence, their wedding date's off!  Invoking the tried-and-true methods of her favorite literary sleuths, Annie snoops around the greasepaint and glitter of the show-stopper scene if she doesn't watch it, because theatrical murderers never play fair.
language: English
title: Something Wicked
titlecomplete: Something Wicked (Death on Demand, #3)
genres: Audiobook, Cozy Mystery, Southern, Adult Fiction, Crime, Amateur Sleuth, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 2003
series: Death on Demand
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Bantam