THE DAGGER BEFORE ME

Persephone &lsquo,Percy&rsquo, Cole joins the ranks of other gumshoes such as Sam Spade, Lew Archer, and Phillip Marlowe. ,This five-foot eleven, full-figured gal has the same hard-boiled, take-no-prisoners attitude, but with a difference. She&rsquo,s a shamus with a wicked sense of humor and ,the mother of an eight-year old son. ,Halloween, 1942, finds Percy ,Cole backstage during the previews of the latest Broadway production of Shakespeare&rsquo,s Macbeth. There&rsquo,s double, double, toil and trouble when an actor falls from an overhead catwalk and breaks his neck. Only the latest in a series of catastrophes, his death serves to further fuel the lore and superstition surrounding the Scottish play and its supernatural force since the play',s creation in 1606. With a shortage of &lsquo,man&rsquo, power due to the war overseas, the desperate producer takes a chance on the female PI to save the show from closing. But everyone has their secrets, from the director on down to the lowliest spear thrower. One more murder and a near death scene for Percy, and she&rsquo,s not sure which is worse &ndash, that someone is trying to kill her or being foisted into the role of Witch Number Two. Armed with her noodle and a WWI German Mauser, Persephone Cole will make things right, because that&rsquo,s what lady dicks do._,