

Dr. Cook's Garden
Ira Levin
A Nobel Prize winner has lived for years on a meager, unpalatable diet, to favor an ailing heart.
This lack of much heart has made the philosophy of his books coldly cynical.
After signing a will that leaves a third of his estate to his young doctor, a third to perpetuate his house as a sanctuary for his spirit and the final third to the Harvard Law School to insure that the terms of his odd testament will be carried out, he eats a sumptuous meal and dies happily.
Instead of the solitude he expected, he is beset by the spirits of an Indian girl pushed off a cliff by her lover, a Southern belle with a disturbing drawl and a phony liberal attitude, and a frustrated composer.
Then the pretty cook a former model who prepared the fatal dishes returns to the house and is mistaken for his illegitimate daughter.
He eventually finds peace by furthering a romance between the doctor and the young girl.
"Patrick has learned the trick of inserting a big solid laugh line at the right moment."
— New York Daily News
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