Cast for Death
Listed in the Theater category on Art In Fiction, Cast for Death (2000) is Margaret Yorke’s 5th installment in her Patrick Grant series of novels. Sam Irwin, actor, is found dead in the River Thames. It appears to be suicide. But why should he have taken his own life shortly before opening in a new play at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon? Dr. Patrick Grant, a friend of Irwin, manages to link the seemingly unconnected occurrences of the death of a dog, a further suicide, and a series of art robberies in coming to a conclusion. That, however, is not what is seems, being only the prelude to a massive deception. Grant himself is threatened, and unless he can escape unscathed from a concert at the Festival Hall, the secret of Irwin's death will die with him. “Her short, sparse accounts of things going wrong and innocent people getting caught up in events beyond their control never fails to induce a powerful sense of apprehension and foreboding.” â Guardian Margaret Yorke (1924-2012) was one of the most renowned British female authors of the mystery novel. She was born in Surrey but spent her childhood in Dublin, Ireland, before moving to England in 1937. During World War II she worked as a driver for the Women's Royal Naval service, and after the war she became the first woman to work in Christ Church Library, Oxford. Buy Now from Amazon
