An elegant, gothic tale set in a mansion house in Berkshire in 1949, in which Sir Hugo Coal believes Fledge the butler is about to oust him from his marital bed and usurp his position. The author also wrote "Blood and Water".
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An elegant, gothic tale set in a mansion house in Berkshire in 1949, in which Sir Hugo Coal believes Fledge the butler is about to oust him from his marital bed and usurp his position. The author also wrote "Blood and Water".
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1997, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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192
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1997
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English
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1997
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1997, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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1997
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1989, Poseidon Press
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1989
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1997
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05/1989
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067166509X
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9780671665098
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1989
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1990, Ballantine Books
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11/1990
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, NY
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1990,
Ballantine Books
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1990,
Penguin Books Ltd, London
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1989,
Poseidon Press, New York, NY
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1989,
Viking, London
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From the synopsis of this book, I was really looking forward to this. "Sulfurously funny", said one of the reviewers. What a disappointment! The narration is over dramatic and the pace is uneven at best. And I found very little that I could describe as funny. Half the details and events make no sense at all. I get that the main character, a very unlikable man, who is narrating the story is mostly an unreliable witness if not an outright liar.
I finished the book, so I'll give it 2 stars, but this was mostly a waste of time.
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