Carol Verburg is best known as a playwright, director, and author of best-selling books including Ourselves Among Others, Making Contact, and The Environmental Predicament. The regular producer of Edward Gorey's plays on Cape Cod, Verburg also directed several plays of her own, including Lady Day in Love and The Whistling Pig, as well as the first workshop of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and the unofficial U.S. premiere of Peter Shaffer’s The Gift of the Gorgon. Croaked: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery started as one of her and Gorey's frequent idees du jour over lunch.