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I would like
to find another
book by this
guy to see
if this one
was the way
he writes or
maybe this
was just fun.
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She's landed the title role in a new production of the musical "Mame", and though it's off-off-off-off Broadway, Polly's bank account - and her ego - need the job.
And if all goes well,
the show just might go to New York! There's one minor detour, though:
on the second day of rehearsals, wunderkind director Karen Richards
turns up dead. Of course Polly's nose for news needs to know, and though
Karen was well liked, it seems some last-minute casting changes from
artistic director/megalomaniac Gerold Goss did her in.
Sadly, Polly's
Suspect No. 1 is her new friend and co-star Sharon Fletcher, who also
plays a deliciously sultry bad girl on the popular daytime soap "It's
Never Fair Weather." Sharon was the last person seen with the deceased
director...and her Emmy matches the dent in Karen's head.
But as Gerold
takes over the director's chair, Polly finds her
cast-member-suspect-list reaching epic proportions. Could it be
Charlotte Bunch, who Karen politely corrected until she got her Irish
brougue right?
Everyone knows actresses can be very touchy. Or Gerold's
sweetly innocent girlfriend Mag Ryan, who drunkenly reveals that she
wouldn't let anything stand in the way of her landing a part in the
possibly Broadway-bound musical? Or maybe even Karen's young assistant
Jamie, who Polly discovers was promised a role in the play...after
Karen's untimely demise?
The more Polly sniffs, the surer she is that
Sharon didn't haul off and bash Karen with her Emmy. But the evidence is
mounting, and it'll take all of Polly's wits - and some help back at
Pepper Plantation from her ever-dependable son, Tim, and their
perpetually wisecracking maid Placenta - to save the jailed soap star
from a murder rap...and a starring role in a real-life drama tentatively
entitled "Framed!" Read more about R.T. Jordan here.
