Summer can be the best of times or the worst of times for the resort town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. ‚ ‚
In honor of the Bastille Day celebration‚ the League of Literary Ladies is reading A Tale of Two Cities. They even have their own Defarge sisters‚ elderly twins Margaret and Alice‚ who run the knitting shop‚ and the head-banging rock band Guillotine showing their chops for the tourists. But when the celebration is cut short by murder‚ solving the mystery will be a far‚ far better thing than the Literary Ladies have done before.