Title: The Skull Beneath the Skin
First published: 1991
Description: Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death. 

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Fading star Clarissa Lisle plans a spectacular comeback, to be staged in a gothic castle. But poison-pen letters bearing death threats couched in Shakespearian quotations prompt Clarissa's husband to call in the young private detective Cordelia Gray to investigate.
Subjects: Fiction, Cordelia Gray (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Large type books, England, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Gray, cordelia (fictitious character), fiction, London (england), fiction, English literature, Fiction, thrillers, general, Private investigators, Bodyguards, Actresses, Murder, Islands, Novela inglesa, Police
Places: Island of Courcy, Dorset, England
People: Cordelia Gray
Time periods: 21st century, s. XX-XXI