Title: Something Wicked
First published: November 1994
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Summer theater, Max Darling (Fictitious character), Annie Laurance Darling (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Crimes against, Actors, Booksellers and bookselling, Large type books, Darling, annie laurance (fictitious character), fiction, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction
Places: South Carolina
LC classification: PS3558.A676 S66 2004