Fading actress Clarissa Lisle has been receiving frightening notes full of veiled threats on her life. Clarissa also is terrified of failing in her comeback performance, a revival of The Duchess of Malfi, held on a small private island off Dorset.Her husband hires private detective Cordelia Gray to stop the notes and determine who is sending them. Once on the sunlit island of Courcy, Cordelia discovers that nearly everyone there has a good reason to hate the vain and beautiful Clarissa, whose comeback is booby-trapped. ...
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Fading actress Clarissa Lisle has been receiving frightening notes full of veiled threats on her life. Clarissa also is terrified of failing in her comeback performance, a revival of The Duchess of Malfi, held on a small private island off Dorset.Her husband hires private detective Cordelia Gray to stop the notes and determine who is sending them. Once on the sunlit island of Courcy, Cordelia discovers that nearly everyone there has a good reason to hate the vain and beautiful Clarissa, whose comeback is booby-trapped. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, Cordelia finds the stage is set for death.The Skull Beneath the Skin is an intense and intricate mystery -- P.D. James at her very best.
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