The Ghosts' High Noon
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In this delightful short story, enterprising actress and amateur sleuth Isobel Spice faces down a theater ghost to learn the truth behind an actor's mysterious death during a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's gothic operetta "Ruddigore."
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