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Robert Barnard
At Deaths Door
Series: Crime / Mysteries
The affair between Roderick Cotterel - author and literary giant - and the young actress Myra Mason had been gutter press front page news in the 60s. Their outrageous affair had ended publicly, acrimoniously, and with Myra pregnant. But now Roderick Cotterel lies upstairs in his room, senile, wandering, and dictating wills leaving things he no longer has to people who are long dead. His children - his legitimate children - are relieved that his erratic and self-indulgent life style can no longer embarrass them. But then Cordelia arrives - Cordelia the illegitimate love child of the infamous union, and after Cordelia comes Myra Mason, now a distinguished Dame of the theatre. And it is plain that between mother and daughter bubbles a cauldron of mutual spite and resentment. The scene is set for violence - a murder that is confusing and not at all what it appears to be.
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