At Death's Door - Hardcover
First American edition. Six-time Edgar nominee Robert Barnard gives us two of his best characters ever: Benedict Cotterel, a former sexual rake and one of the best novelists of his generation, who now lies on his deathbed; and his one-time mistress, Dame Myra Mason, a renowned and tempermental actress, and mother of his illegitimate daughter, Cordelia. viii , 200 pages. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 8vo..
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In Barnard's smoothly skilled 16th mystery, Caroline and Roderick Cotterel live a quiet life in Sussex with their grown, retarded daughter and Roderick's senile, bedridden father Benedict, a once-famous and notorious novelist. But when Roderick's half-sister Cordelia asks to visit and look through Benedict's papers, things liven up. Their father's illegitimate daughter, she is writing a biography of her mother, Dame Myra Mason, a renowned actress whose rancorous break-up with their father had been much publicized. The biography will be more in the line of an expose, Cordelia having been emotionally abused by her mother, and no one is surprised when Dame Myra herself shows up to put a stop to it. When she is murdered in the local pub that night a host of possible suspects, led of course by Cordelia, is revealed. After some admirable and intuitive sleuthing by Chief Inspector Meredith identifies the murderer and accomplice, a secret long harbored by Caroline and Roderick is also disclosed. Appealing and distasteful characters alike make this another highly entertaining diversion from the author of The Skeleton in the Grass , Out of the Blackout , etc.
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No one loved the murdered Dame Myra Mason, long-ago plaything of now senile Benedict Cotterel. Myra's estranged, illegitimate daughter plans a scathing biography; Benedict's dangerously stupid legitimate daughter blames the woman for stealing her father; and Myra's new husband admits to marrying for career advancement. Tucked away upstairs in the Old Rectory, Maudsley, Benedict himself supposedly knows nothing. Barnard shows rare form as usual, investing his English village world with memorable class types, sly quirks, and supporting characters, all limned in masterfully efficient prose. REK
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- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0002321955
- ISBN 13 9780002321952
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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