These Bones Were Made for Dancing [Hardcover]

Annette Meyers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1995

About to reprise her role in a Broadway revival, dancer-turned-detective Leslie Wetzon investigates the disappearance of a fellow dancer from the original cast and the appearance of a skeleton in an old theatrical trunk.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Both Broadway and Wall Street snap to life in this sixth Smith and Wetzon mystery (after Murder: The Musical). Leslie Wetzon, a former dancer who is now partner of an executive headhunting firm with the elegant Xenia Smith, is drawn into a murder mystery that's at least 15 years old when a skeleton with a bullet through its skull turns up in a Greenwich Village brownstone. At the same time, Wetzon and an old friend are collaborating on a two-day charity revival of an 18-year-old musical, for which they're recruiting the original cast and crew. One cast member, dancer Terri Matthews, once a close friend of Wetzon's, can't be located. Is the skeleton what's left of Terri? Wetzon and her lover, NYPD detective Silvestri, try to find out. The suspects, most of them associated with the original musical, are a wonderfully drawn, backbiting, jealous and vindictive lot-and Terri, despite her farm-fresh image, turns out to have been an egregious vamp. Meyers plunges Wetzon into a frenetic routine of rehearsing, recruiting and sleuthing, as NYC at holiday time provides an electric background for a lively, gleefully bitchy whodunit.
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From the Publisher

Former dancer Leslie Wetzon is back in the spotlight when a hit musical is revived as an original-cast production. The gang's all there, except for one member who's been missing since the show closed 18 years before. Then a skeleton turns up in a theatrical trunk....

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 358 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (July 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385476531
• ISBN-13: 978-0385476539
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,198,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ANNETTE MEYERS


Annette Meyers was born in Manhattan, grew up on a chicken farm in Toms River, NJ, graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and came running back to NYC as fast as she could. She is the author of 8 Smith and Wetzon Wall Street and Broadway mysteries, using her experience as a Wall Street headhunter and arbitrator, as well as her Broadway experience as Harold Prince's assistant. The most recent novel is Hedging. Her other works: 2 Olivia Brown 1920s Greenwich Village mysteries, Free Love and Murder Me Now; and a stand-alone psychological suspense novel: Repentances. Her noir short stories have appeared in many anthologies. One of these stories- "You Don't Know Me" - was included in James Ellroy's edited Best American Mystery Stories, 2002.
As Maan Meyers, she and her husband Martin write The Dutchman series. There are now 7 history mysteries in the series, and numerous short stories that feature characters from the novels. The setting is New York in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The 7th novel - The Organ Grinder - set in 1899, was published in October, 2008. THE DUTCHMAN, the first book in the series, is now available on Kindle
Annette was the 10th president of Sister in Crime. Website:www.meyersmysteries.com