Symposium

One October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is) and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment. Symposium is Muriel Spark one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and author of classics including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at her wicked best.