Memento Mori
Practical jokes
Mystery/Suspense
Alter
Modern fiction
literary fiction
Belletristische Darstellung
Classics
Psychological fiction
Older people
London (england), fiction
Mystery
Death
English literature
Literature
Fiction, general
Fiction
Dame Lettie Colston, seventy-nine, O.B.E. and pioneer penal reformer, has much in common with the elderly residents of the Maud Long Medical Ward. All are united by scorn, resentment, boredom--and the maudlin humour that masks the awareness of impending death. Then the insidious telephone calls…
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