Jean-Claude Keyes Mysteries

In the first of the Jean-Claude Keyes trilogy, by Bruce Barber and the late Virgil Burnett (as "Bevan Amberhill"), Keyes travels from Toronto to Stratford, Canada and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. The fire of emotion beneath the glamour of the world of the stage emerges when Keyes discovers the body of a young actor, murdered outside the theatre.

In this second book of the Jean-Claude Keyes trilogy by Bruce Barber and the late Virgil Burnett (as "Bevan Amberhill"), Claude and his Toronto editor are following his furniture to his new home in Stratford when a savage snow-storm strands them, along with a motley crew of strangers, at the Blue Bayou Motel just outside Stratford, where they become further inconvenienced by murder.

Biographer Jean-Claude Keyes becomes involved with an enticing woman named Kaylyn Dionne, who is directing a Stratford Festival production of Count Dracula. On a most unusual “first date,” Keyes and Kaylyn discover the bodies of her sister and another member of the acting troupe, murdered horrifically. But the show must go on, even in the ensuing atmosphere of fear, distrust, and confusion.