7,220 story words.
Approx 29 standard pages.
Part of the Samantha (Sam) series of short stories set in Vermont and Austin Texas., beginning with "Dirty Sixth Street" and continuing with "Hello Darling" and "Sound from Nowhere."
Light mysteries, either featuring Sam on mystery adventures with six young cousins, or of Sam telling the same children stories of growing up in Vermont.
In "Prop Master, Where's the Liqueur" - the fourth in this series - Sam is fourteen in the story she narrates to the six children (ages ten through eighteen).
Their interactions, as she relates this episode in her life, mingles and colors the story of being a young prop master at a community theatrical production.
There's also an older boy, and an older actor who drinks.
Plus the mystery of, where is the liqueur going, when it ends up missing? That the actor drinks liqueur during performance, when it's not missing, doesn't help.
While questions from the younger of the six children, asking how and why the play unfolds as it does, and what the various terms of the theatre mean, add charm and humor throughout - all the way to the suspenseful ending.
Approx 29 standard pages.
Part of the Samantha (Sam) series of short stories set in Vermont and Austin Texas., beginning with "Dirty Sixth Street" and continuing with "Hello Darling" and "Sound from Nowhere."
Light mysteries, either featuring Sam on mystery adventures with six young cousins, or of Sam telling the same children stories of growing up in Vermont.
In "Prop Master, Where's the Liqueur" - the fourth in this series - Sam is fourteen in the story she narrates to the six children (ages ten through eighteen).
Their interactions, as she relates this episode in her life, mingles and colors the story of being a young prop master at a community theatrical production.
There's also an older boy, and an older actor who drinks.
Plus the mystery of, where is the liqueur going, when it ends up missing? That the actor drinks liqueur during performance, when it's not missing, doesn't help.
While questions from the younger of the six children, asking how and why the play unfolds as it does, and what the various terms of the theatre mean, add charm and humor throughout - all the way to the suspenseful ending.
