Ovation by Death: A Vic Bowering Mystery - Tapa dura

Vic Bowering is an actress with more wit than weeks toward unemployment, so when she finally bags a leading role in a Maine repertory company's summer production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, she thinks her luck just might be changing. But, as any actor can tell you, luck is a funny thing in theater. It was the original actress's untimely demise that landed Vic this to-die-for role, and the company's next show will be the cursed Mac - er, the Scottish play. Combine these bad omens with no rehearsal, an unknown cast, and a set plagued by increasingly dangerous and mysterious mishaps, and Vic's summer is shaping up as a bus-'n'-truck actor's worst nightmare. And if that doesn't provide enough drama, she's also fielding long-distance meddling from her longtime beau, NYPD Sergeant Dan Duchinski, and her not-so-longtime almost-ex-husband, Barry Laskin, strangely united in their effort to get her offstage and out of Maine.
Still, the show must go on - that is, if the theater and cast remain standing. Murderously clever, wickedly funny, this is Dorian Yeager at her best.