novel character please

[quizbuff]

when we first meet this autocratic old woman,she is picking up the phone to a sinister anonymous caller

[captainandy]

Sounds like the plot of 'Sorry, Wrong Number'.

[shaneystar2]

Muriel Sparks Memento Mori ..the old girl is a Dame.
She's one of these busy body types a former prison reformer . She picks up the phone and someone says ..something like ..You are about to die ..and then all the old people in her social circle get similar phonecalls and lots of skeletons suddenly appear out of various closets .
Here you go
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