Summer can be the best of times or the worst of times for the resort town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. In honor of the Bastille Day celebration, the League of Literary Ladies is reading A Tale of Two Cities. They even have their own Defarge sisters, elderly twins Margaret and Alice, who run the knitting shop, and the head-banging rock band Guillotine showing their chops for the tourists. But when the celebration is cut short by murder, solving the mystery will be a far, far better thing than the Literary Ladies have done before.