title: Tie Dyed and Dead: A Stain-busting Mystery (The Stain-Busting Mysteries)
author: Sharon Short
description: &#8220;Sharon Short&#8217;s clever and amusing mystery, DEATH BY DEEP DISH PIE, is a delicious read!...sure to satisfy&#8221; (Earlene Fowler, praise for DEATH BY DEEP DISH PIE)
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  # [1](../Text/toc.xhtml#toc-chapter001)
  
  
  # [The Chaos Begins](../Text/toc.xhtml#toc-chapter001)
  
  
  The entire area was one massive graveyard.
  
  
  A number of grave markers dotted the landscape, abandoned and forgotten by the
  living. They served as symbols of the dead resting beneath them, and they were
  stuck throughout the hill like a tragic pincushion.
  
  
  At present, two figures were being buffeted by the frigid winds that ravaged
  the naked earth.
  
  
  One of them was a girl of unparalleled beauty, clad in a lascivious black
  bondage dress.
  
  
  Her pale arms and sides were exposed to the elements, and the leather belts
  providing her chest its sole means of coverage left her shapely breasts
  largely exposed. The black cloth wrapped around her hips flared out into a
  short skirt, and behind it, a layer of fabric with the inside dyed scarlet
  draped outward like a mantle. Her elegant legs, adorned in a layer of thin
  material, stood out even more sharply against the crimson backdrop. Strange