From Publishers Weekly
Spark demonstrates a comic's split-second timing and a classical fascination for fatality in this darkly humorous tale of 10 stylish Londoners beset by murder.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Despite the title, no meeting of minds takes place in Spark's astringent new novel. There is, however, a smart London dinner party at which the threads of her narrative simultaneously come together and unravel. Guests of honor are Hilda's son William and his louche bride Margaret, but Hilda herself, a rich widow with doubts about her new daughter-in-law, is inexplicably absent. When the police finally arrive with grim news, Margaret is aghast--"It shouldn't have been till Sunday!"--and the help are very anxious to leave. Nothing is what it seems in Spark's world, and her treatment is so fast and furious that readers new to her work may not know what hit them. A delight, but mainly for fans. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 8/90.
- Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Ind.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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