"The second Rosie Winter mystery finds the World War II-era Broadway actress (and former assistant to a private eye) using her sleuthing skills to solve a series of backstage crimes. Rosie and roommate Jane are cast in a troubled production of a musical financed by a lowlife mobster. After the show's star is murdered and a pal of Rosie's confesses to the crime, Rosie and Jane, not buying the confession, set out to find who really dunnit. As more accidents befall the cast and crew, it becomes clear that someone does not want the show to open."—Booklist