SET AN ACTRESS TO CATCH AN ACTRESS Angela Benson inherits a fortune when her Aunt Maud is murdered, but the killer is never found, and suspicion continues to cloud her life. Then as Angela s career begins to take off, new evidence comes to light that throws her back into the center of a murder investigation. As Angela prepares for the role of Amanda in Noel Coward s Private Lives, she finds herself embroiled in a sinister play beyond the footlights. To Catch an Actress and Other Mystery Stories is a new collection of short stories by Elizabeth Elwood, whose murder mystery play, Casting for...

""Classic murder mystery plots reminiscent of Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.""-Kirkus Discoveries ""The writing is assured and lively, and the logic is credible.""-Barbara Kay, National Post columnist

Opera singer and part-time sleuth, Philippa Beary, returns in the second of a series of lighthearted mystery books featuring the Beary family. In "A Black Tie Affair and Other Mystery Stories," Philippa-together with her feisty city councillor father and her detective inspector brother-foils would-be criminals in a variety of settings.

In the title story, set against the backdrop of the...

There's drama at the opera house when a baritone plummets to his death during a dress rehearsal for Gounod's Faust; a threatened assassination mars a state dinner for the US vice-president; and a murder at sea is solved through the curious incident of the boat dog in the night. Elizabeth Elwood's mystery stories have won comparisons to classic writers in the genre, including Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. The Devil Gets His Due and Other Mystery Stories is the fifth book in her series, and it continues the story of feisty city councillor, Bertram Beary, his opera-singing daughter,...