Their marriage was almost ten years long and the party in their apartment was one of both farewell to Brant as he headed to New Zealand the following day for six months, and Eliza as the revival of the stage play of twenty five years ago was due to begin again. Aaron was also Lane's agent twenty-five years ago; she changed agents because she wanted bigger guns, and they remain friendly. Vera says she doesn’t like Eliza, and she resents not being able to stop herself from feeling sorry for her, but hopes to get over that very soon.

It wasn’t all about the case as the updates on Peabody and Mavis’s home renovation project was fun and interesting.Debra was drinking vodka and cyanide, and somebody used her ‘link to type out a fake suicide note: “I can’t take it. I was late to the game in reading the “In Death” series … was always putting it off: not even sure why – well, I was sort of sure why. The day Rose turned 18 she kicked her mother out, a few months later she got the role of Marcie Bright in Upstage, and six months later she was dead from barbs and vodka; Novak would have been about 11.

Eve lays out the rest of the evidence, and Eliza starts weeping, saying Bernstein killed Brant, and she lost her mind, went to confront her, where Bernstein told Lane she wanted her dead, to pay for Leah, and then poured something from the vial into her glass and drank it – she killed herself right in front of Lane. With so many attendees, staff, and servers, Eve has her work cut out determining who committed murder in the middle of the crowd—and what was their motivation.Since the champagne cocktail that killed Brant was originally intended for Eliza, could it be that she was the real target? She says she didn’t wish him dead, just that he had been caught with his pants down around his ankles and his cock in some ingénue, but that won’t happen now. Bowen suggests Lane sing a song, so Lane passes the cocktail back to Fitzhugh and goes off to find the actor playing Marcie, Samantha Keene. Started "Naked in Death" in 2012 (it was first published in 1995) so 17 years after it’s first publication. Laugh myself silly at times and I'm impressed every single time how the author makes the simplest interactions become meaningful.

Eve and Roarke take a walk to their pond after dinner, and Eve says she thinks it was Eliza, and that she added pills to Rose’s vodka. Crommell flips out when Eve enters the shrine he has to Eliza, threatening her with his scrapbook scissors.They concur that killing Fitzhugh wouldn’t lead to the kind of publicity that Bernstein would enjoy or profit from. She says Eve got lucky here and there and then married lucky on top of it, now she’s just trying to get another notch in her belt, that’s all Eliza is to her, and she will see Eve crushed at the bottom when she’s done, and when she’s done she will sue her for every penny Roarke has. Officer Fenton remembered seeing a disguised Eliza Lane come to the building shortly after midnight, leaving thirty minutes later.