Daisy Gumm Majesty Meets Gilbert and Sullivan in SPIRITS ONSTAGE. a Historical Cozy Mystery by Alice Duncan

--1920s, Pasadena, California--

Daisy Gumm Majesty, Pasadena's spiritualist-medium to folks with more money than sense, is talked into playing the role of mean Katisha in her church's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, The Mikado.

As rehearsals progress and Daisy falls into her role, the producer's wife experiences a mysterious decline in health, a cast member claims someone is trying to kill her, and the husband of another cast-member is murdered.

Knowing Detective Sam Rotondo has his hands full, Daisy turns her attention to the murder, convinced Gloria Lippincott did her husband in. But no matter how Daisy twists and turns the facts, Gloria's alibi is rock-solid.

Then Daisy discovers the Silver Ghost . . .

"Well plotted with a band of whimsical characters and genuine humor . . . as comforting as a warm mug of cocoa on a blustery day." Diane Morasco, RT Book Reviews

"Cozy fans will find [Daisy's] simple, sweet, budding relationship with Sam refreshingly free of artifice." Publishers Weekly

THE DAISY GUMM MAJESTY MYSTERIES, in series order
Strong Spirits
Fine Spirits
High Spirits
Hungry Spirits
Genteel Spirits
Ancient Spirits
Spirits Revived
Dark Spirits
Spirits Onstage
Unsettled Spirits
Bruised Spirits
Spirits United
Spirits Unearthed
Shaken Spirits

Pasadena's Favorite Spiritualist-Medium Takes the Stage... Whether She Wants To or Not! -1924, Pasadena, California- Daisy Gumm Majesty never expected her spiritualist talents to land her on stage-especially not in The Mikado at her church, playing the delightfully villainous Katisha. But thanks to some well-placed arm-twisting from Pasadena's elite (and a certain persistent detective), Daisy finds herself swept up in rehearsals, costume fittings, and an overabundance of operatic drama. But the drama isn't confined to the stage. The theater crowd has its fair share of secrets, and when the director's wife takes mysteriously ill, a jittery actress swears someone is trying to kill her, and a cast member's husband turns up dead, Daisy realizes she's in for more than missed cues and flubbed lines. With Detective Sam Rotondo juggling an investigation and trying to keep Daisy out of trouble (a truly hopeless endeavor), Daisy must untangle the mystery before opening<