At Death's Door

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..