Family matters
By: Anthony Rolls, with an introduction by Martin Edwards
Contributors: Edwards, Martin, 1955- writer of introduction
Edition: First edition, First US trade paperback edition.
Series: British Library Crime Classics; British Library crime classics
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781464207426
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Investigation; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Poisoning; Married people; Murder; Fiction
Description: Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artifacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a husband who will persist in making a fool of himself in public. Their marriage consists of horrible quarrels, futile arguments, incessant bickering. Scarcely any friends will visit the Kewdinghams in their peaceful hometown Shufflecester. Everything is wrong - and with the entrance of John Harrigall, a bohemian bachelor from London who catches Bertha's eye, they take a turn for the worse. Soon deep passions and resentments shatter the calm facade of the Kewdinghams' lives.
Notes: Originally published in 1933.