Royal Cat — Garrison Allen

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

The annual Elizabethan Spring Faire has transformed Empty Creek, Arizona into Merry Olde England. Everyone is turned out in doublet and hose to relive the revelry of a lively era. Minstrels make music, bawdy bards abound and wanton wenches cavort with lusty cavaliers. Anyone who misbehaves may be sent summarily to the stocks.

But more than mischief is afoot when Carolyn Lewis, the less-than-popular retired teacher playing The Virgin Queen, is executed in the dark of night. Her crown passes to Penelope Warren, bookstore owner and amateur sleuth extraordinaire. Then the murderer takes an encore, and it's up to Penelope and her awesome Abyssinian cat, "Big Mike," to take their sleuthing behind the scenes...where death treads the boards and a cunning killer refuses to be upstaged.