Aspiring actress Martha Virginia Brown was only twenty when she died in an apparent fall while appearing in summer stock in the N.C. foothills.

Some say she was lured by the music of Lucifer's fiddle played by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. But Martha's murderer proves much too real to be an apparition. Now, fifty later, her great niece and namesake, Ginger Cameron, learns the killer will stop at nothing to silence those who threaten to expose the secret hidden for so many years.


“This charming mystery-ghost story, smartly plotted and deftly told, will delight fans of Ballard and win her many new ones.” ---Publishers Weekly

“Mignon Ballard has done an artful job of pulling together all the essential elements of a good, old-fashioned whodunit. An engaging, well-written, fast-paced mystery.” --- The Charlotte Observer