Running Out of Time

Restaurant manager Dodie O'Dell's themed food ideas have been called cute clever and delicious but never revolutionary-until now. Dodie's Windjammer Restaurant is stocking the Etonville Little Theatre's concession stand with colonial-era desserts and drinks: Swamp Yankee applesauce cake pumpkin bread hot cider punch and mulled wine to complement the latest production. A local playwright has adapted Thornton Wilder's <i>Our Town </i>into <i>Eton Town</i> shifting the story to colonial America and the founding of Etonville New Jersey shortly after the Revolutionary War.<p></p><p>On opening night hours before the curtain rises Dodie runs into an agitated actress backstage with blood on her hands. Then a stranger is found among the chairs set for a graveyard scene with a knife in his chest. The show will not go on-the theatre is now a crime scene. Hoping to clear the red-handed suspect Dodie returns to the role of amateur sleuth to mull over the clues and beat the backstage stabber to the punch-before someone else becomes history . . .</p>