When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Society of Chastin, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood drama. The play's the thing wherein the curtains falls on a mean spirited grande dame Corinne Webster. While jeweled point, accusing Annie of murder, the perpetrator lurks within the genteel cast of murder most make believe....and the murder weapon is one of the props.