It´s the most important night of the year for costume designer Charlotte Fairfax and the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company--the annual fund raising performance at the country estate of the wealthy widow Paula Van Dusen. This year, the company will give a moonlight performance of A Midsummer Night´s Dream as part of the wedding celebrations for Paula´s daughter, Belinda, and her fiance Adrian. But then Hugh Hedley, family friend of the Van Dusens and Adrian´s rival in the cutthroat world of high-end Manhattan real estate, is found murdered with a stolen prop from the play. Paula, desperate to keep her daughter´s name of out of the paper, enlists Charlotte´s help, despite the fact that Charlotte´s already got her hands full amidst her costume design responsibilities and finding a home for the company´s new theater school. But 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!- Ill Met by Murder, the second in Elizabeth J. Duncan´s compelling mystery series, will satisfy every Shakespeare and mystery lover alike.