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"Costume designer Charlotte Fairfax is enlisted by theater company supporter Paula Van Dusen to investigate the murder of a family friend who happens to be a business rival of her daughter's fianc�e and throws herself into an investigation of shady business deals, a missing dog, and long buried family secrets"--

"A Catskills resort's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes a wickedly ironic turn when the leading lady, Lauren Richmond, is first poisoned and then stabbed"--

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales collects the best macabre stories of Washington Irving. Blending sly humor with supernatural thrills, these tales are among the most beloved and re-read of all American fiction. In the thirteen stories gathered for this volume, Irving evokes the colorful landscapes of his Hudson Valley hometown, and conjures characters and creatures from its historical past for a unique kind of weird tale that speaks directly...

Because Wishbone keeps getting interrupted while trying to take a nap, he begins thinking about Rip Van Winkle and finds himself in Rip's shoes, finally waking to a changed world.

Wandering through the mountains to escape from his nagging wife, Rip van Winkle encounters a stranger and a group of small oddly dressed people playing a strange game with bowls.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

"A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway. But when the storm hits, no one is getting away. It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing maybe even romantic weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with...