At Death's Door Author:Robert Barnard GRANDE DAME...GRANDE DEATH — The king of novelists, Benedict Cotterel, was in his bedroom, dictating how to leave his money. — The queen of the theater, Dame Myra Mason, was in the local inn, eating crow and honey. — Years ago their brief affair had resulted in a daughter, Cordelia. Now she was writing a tell-all biography. — Cordelia had never know... more »n her father or the half-brother who reluctantly let her into the mansion where the
aged writer lived. She was, after all, planning a character assassination. But a murder? Dame Myra's presence
at the inn with a new husband in tow was part of an effort to stop Cordelia's dramatic expos?. No one guessed
that the right cast had been assembled to play out a tragedy...of desperate secrets and sudden death.« less