<p>A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas ? with a mysterious guest.<br>With copious booze flowing, acid-tongued barbs flying, and the threat of global conflict looming, the guests ? and the world around them ? are close to boiling point. Everyone has a confession. Someone has a secret.<br>Set in the French Alps in 1940, Steven Carl ...