Final Curtain ― An Edna Ferber Mystery

In 1940, against the backdrop of Hitler and the specter of world war, Edna Ferber follows an old dream: to act onstage. Starring in The Royal Family, the comedy written with George Kaufman, she travels to Maplewood, New Jersey for a week of summer stock. But her escape from the headlines is short lived. An understudy is murdered. Who shot the handsome young actor?

Ed Ifkovic taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for over three decades, and now devotes himself to writing fiction. A longtime devotee of mystery novels, he fondly recalls his boyhood discovery of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series in a family bookcase, and his immediate obsession with the whodunit world. FINAL CURTAIN is the fifth mystery in his Edna Ferber Mystery series for Poisoned Pen Press. Previous books are LONE STAR (2009). ESCAPE ARTIST (2011), MAKE BELIEVE (2012), and DOWNTOWN STRUT (2013).