TY - BOOK AU - Nixon,Joan Lowery TI - The weekend was murder! SN - 0440219019 (pbk.) : U1 - F PY - 1994///, c1992 CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Dell KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Theatrical companies KW - Authors N1 - "A Laurel-leaf book." N2 - Sixteen-year-old Liz's summer job with an expensive hotel involves her in a staged murder mystery weekend and a real murder. Mary Elizabeth can't wait for the weekend to begin at the Ridley Hotel, where a famous mystery writer and a troupe of actors are coming to enact a murder mystery for 150 amateur sleuths. Mary Elizabeth's role is to discover "the body" in Room 1927, which is supposed to be haunted. But nothing prepares her for the real body that she finds in Room 1927 ER -