The bottles of champagne behind a curtain would not collect dust.
The novelist was supposedly stabbed in the heart, but he was clearly stabbed in the left side of his chest.
It is treated as common knowledge that Frank O'Toole wrote 40 books in his series but, according to his agent, a big secret that his two latest books were never published. This is backwards. Any public information would show that Frank published only 38 books. A select few would know that he continued writing books for the series, which would be embarrassing while he was alive but potentially lucrative once he was known to be dead since they could be published posthumously.