A winter's night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, shouts and screams emerge from the library; the Baron's lunatic brother starts madly howling in the attic; two of the secretary's friends are left waiting in a car; a reverend's services are needed for an impromptu wedding-and despite all that the servants obey their orders as they pass the time playing records, preparing dinner, and documenting false testimonies while a twisted murder plot unfolds upstairs.

About the Author
Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver's Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

Reviews
"Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her." -- Stephen Schiff - The New Yorker
"Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions." -- James Wood - The Guardian
"A very rare bird...Spark explored [her] metafictional-theological theme further in the brilliant and audacious novellas The Driver's Seat and Not to Disturb, which I especially admire." -- David Lodge, author of Changing Places



Book Information
ISBN 9780811218672
Author Muriel Spark
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 114g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 8mm