Curtain Call for the Quiet Dead

Theo Marlowe thought he'd left tragedy behind with the fading footlights of vaudeville.

Now the retired song-and-dance man runs the Marlowe Majestic, a once-glorious 1920s theater in the sleepy town of Larkspur Bluffs. With a revival variety show planned to restore both the stage and his own sense of purpose, Theo dusts off a long-neglected prop trunk—only to discover a bloodstained glove, a decades-old playbill, and a letter that suggests the mysterious onstage death of a former cast member...