Heir to McBee Mansion, Simmons Pettigru has returned from New York to her hometown, Rosemont, S.C., and has taken a job as the director of the community theater. As part of an upcoming fundraiser for the troupe, she has invited Broadway director Max Everhart to appear in a scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth. But during her very first board meeting, he's found murdered-stabbed in the back with a dagger-on the stage, which just happens to be on the third floor of the mansion.

Simmons thinks she wants to sell the mansion, but that changes when she finds that her closest relative, her Aunt Stacy McBee, wants her to keep it and get it listed on the historic register.

Two friends from childhood and her high school sweetheart-the detective assigned to the case-lead a cast of Rosemont characters (pardon the pun) on a wild adventure in search of a killer (or killers?) who turn the focus on Simmons herself.

Does this all end well? Or is this just another tale of double, double toil and trouble?