Title: Family matters
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.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Investigation, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Poisoning, Married people, Murder, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction, Married people -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Poisoning -- Fiction, Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction, England -- Fiction
Places: England