"Variety hall actress Ophelia Flax's plan to reunite her friend Prue with her estranged--and allegedly wealthy--mother, Henrietta, is met with a grim surprise. Not only is the marquise's Paris mansion a mouse-infested ruin, but Henrietta has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind an evasive husband, two sinister stepsisters, and a bullet-riddled corpse in the pumpkin patch decked out in a ball gown and one glass slipper--a corpse that also happens to be a dead ringer for Prue"--Page 4 of cover.