Every year, on a mountaintop in upstate New York, 300 or more people gather to confront and solve a murder mystery. The Mohonk Mystery dinners where among the first and Donald and Abby Westlake have put one of their presentations into a book form. The Castle Alucard, on a bleak peak in the Carpathians -- back before the turn of the last century is deep in Vampire country. It is full of mystery, dark shadows, and .. sudden death.