"Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place...

"Detective Daniel "Boone" Buckam is more than burned out. Forced into a mandatory vacation in Deep Haven, he has to de-stress if he hopes to land the job as Police Chief back in Kellogg, MN... Vivien Calhoun isn't really a drama queen...she's an actress. Or was. After fleeing Broadway, now she's passionate about directing her local summer theater production. But when she ropes uptight Boone into her cast, she can't help but wonder if he might be the...

When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius wouldn't normally accept a job this vague, a mutual friend dangles the prospect of a very rare orchid in exchange for his services, and Wolfe can't resist. With a mind to suss out useful backstage gossip, Wolfe turns to his faithful assistant, Archie Goodwin, to impersonate a journalist in order to speak to the...

Henry had meant to merely launch his career as a producer in small Grover's Corner, but before the summer was over, he had organized a rock-music festival and put on a wild, wild rodeo.