Mrs. Modine and the Case of the Labor Day Love Affair Murder

Mrs. Modine has retired from her official life as a schoolteacher and by a strange quirk of fate, has stumbled into her new role: amateur detective. In the first novel introducing Ellie Modine, she determines to find the killer of a friend that she had just left at the Starlite theater after the successful production of a "Labor Day Love Affair." Unfortunately, sometimes life imitates fiction, and one of the minor actresses of the play is found dead. Ellie believes that in order to bring in the killer, she will have to investigate a very tangled '"love affair." She handles her new job with humor, grace, and a lot of luck, finding love of her own along the way.