Symposium

''The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times . . . She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème.'' Ian Rankin

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 s...