B-Movie icon Mel Moskowitz has problems on his set. His actors are stepping on each other’s lines, the glow-in-the-dark paint won’t stick to the glowworms, and one of his actors is physically dead—not just career dead. Never one to break character, Phidias Quinn puts Watchers aside to consider who suffocate Hank Lipschitz. He needs our help to solve Hank’s murder so he can get back to the butterflies. Here are the people in the Crystal Cave of the Watchers in the order we met them:

• Eunice, the hot, wannabe starlet
• Professor Theobold, who keeps losing his lines
• Lady Cartwright, Hank’s almost ex-wife
• Peg, the workaholic script girl
• Mel Moskowitz, B-movie director extraordinaire
• Dr. Mylo E. Christos, entomologist
• Angry father, the guy who found teh body

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MEET AUTHOR Erica Obey

There are three places you can find Erica Obey when she isn’t writing: Pottering in her garden; out on the trail, looking for birds; or taking Trivia Night far too seriously at a local establishment. She is the author of The Brooklyn North Murder, the first full-length Watson & Doyle mystery, as well as five other novels set in the Hudson Valley, including the award-winning The Curse of the Braddock Brides. Erica is the Past President of the MWA-NY chapter, and a frequent reviewer and judge. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and published academic work on female folklorists before she decided she’d rather be writing the stories herself.

Website: www.ericaobey.com