The paperchase
By: Marcel Theroux
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780571296866
Subjects: Inheritance and succession; Fiction
Description: Damien March is a disconsolate journalist working the nightshift at the BBC in London. He hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle for 20 years and so is shocked when he learns that he has inherited his uncle's ramshackle house on an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod.
Notes: Originally published: as The confessions of Mycroft Holmes. New York: Harcourt, 2001.

"Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award"