<p>It’s the most important night of the year for the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company: the annual fund-raising performance at the country estate of the wealthy widow Paula Van Dusen. And this year promises to be even more special as the company will give a moonlight performance of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> as part of the wedding celebrations for Paula’s daughter Belinda and her fiancé Adrian. But “the course of true love never did run smooth” and in the wake of a disastrous after-party the stage is set for murder.</p><p>Hugh Hedley son of a prominent upstate New York family and Adrian’s rival in the cutthroat world of high-end Manhattan real estate is found murdered with a prop stolen from the play. Mrs. Van Dusen is desperate to keep her daughter’s name out of the paper and so Charlotte Fairfax is drawn into a murder case amid her costume-design responsibilities and finding a home for the company’s new theater school.</p><p>Charlotte nevertheless throws herself into an investigation of shady business deals a missing dog and long-buried family secrets because “though she be but little she is fierce!”</p>