Megan Derr - Dance In The Dark.pdf - Dance with the Devil - wk27

At the age of nine, Johnnie lost everything. A quiet, normal child, his life forever changed when his

family was attacked by a blood-crazed vampire, leaving his parents dead and Johnnie an orphan.

Now grown, he is the cold, proud, beautiful—but very human—son of the Dracula Desrosiers, who took

him in after the tragedy that befell Johnnie's parents. Constantly kept apart for being human, Johnnie

chooses to bury himself in the two things he most loves—books and mysteries.

Then he is summoned by a friend to solve a mystery involving a pair of Cinderella slippers, and in putting

one mystery to rest Johnnie only succeeds in waking several more...

Dance in the Dark

By Megan Derr

Published by Less Than Three Press

reproduced in any manner without written permission of the

publisher, except for the purpose of reviews.

Edited by Michelle McDonough

Cover designed by London Burden

This book is a work of fiction and as such all characters and

situations are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual people,

places, or events is coincidental.

First Edition July 2011

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN 978-1-936202-60-7

Author's Notes

Johnnie is fond of spouting off quotes, and a handful of characters often quote lines right back at him. Because I am nowhere

near clever enough to know dozens of fitting quotes off the top of my head, I cheated. Credit where credit is due, the following

books were used in the course of writing Dance in the Dark:

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject Edited by Susan Ratcliffe

ISBN 978-0-19-860750-2

21 st Century Dictionary of Quotations Edited by The Princeton Language Institute

ISBN 0-440-21447-5

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales Barnes & Noble Books edition

ISBN 0-88029-519-8

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Edited by Sylvan Barnet

ISBN 0-451-52779-8

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Penguin Classics

ISBN 0-140-43684-7

Riddle Me This: A World Treasury of Word Puzzles, Folk Wisdom, & Literary Conundrums by Phil Cousineau

ISBN 1-56731-649-2

Twentieth Century Russian Poetry edited by John Glad and Daniel Weissbort

ISBN 0-87745-365-9

Table of Contents

Case 001: The Devil in Glass Slippers............................................................................................................. 9

Case 002: The Riddling Tale ......................................................................................................................... 26

Case 003: The Bremen .................................................................................................................................. 41

Case 004: The Fishwife .................................................................................................................................. 63

Case 005: Snake Leaves ................................................................................................................................. 90

Case 006: Danced to Pieces ......................................................................................................................... 109

Case 007: The True Bride I......................................................................................................................... 138

Case 008: The True Bride II ....................................................................................................................... 158

Case 009: Beauty in Repose......................................................................................................................... 178

Case 010: Paragon of Beauty ....................................................................................................................... 201

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