Nude with Violin
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Brilliant painter Paul Sorodin dies; indecently close to deaths heels come Sorodins relatives his business manager and others who their grief not entirely untinged with greed anxiously await the reading of the will. Sebastian valet and companion extraordinary to Sorodin steps in with some jolting surprises for the mourners. One jolt makes it clear Sorodin was not all he had seemed. Also on hand with revelations of their own are an eccentric Russian Princess an ex-show girl an Eleventh Hour Immersionist and a mute but effective gentleman named Fabrice. Before they get through reputations are arranged and rearranged.
Noël Coward
Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.
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