A chance encounter with a pickpocket leads Peter Kerrigan to Marsh Manor, where the librarian is on the trail of the missing treasure, supposedly hidden by Lord Claydon a hundred years previously. And the fact that the librarian has been murdered rather suggests that he was on the right track. Soon Kerrigan finds himself in competition with Lord Claydon's descendants as a scramble ensues to locate the fabled treasure, the clue to which appears to lie in a series of Shakespearean quotations...

Review from MyreviewerThis is a book remembered for its description (Chapter 7) of the village cricket match. For anyone who has played club cricket for the 3rd eleven or lower it will help to recall some of the events that make cricket the exceptional sport it is.It is the same game with the same rules as for the pinnacle of the game, Test Cricket. It is usually played over a period of 4 hours 30 minutes, including tea.However unfit, competent or incompetent the playe...

Peter Kerrigan is a man with expensive tastes. Currently, however, he is at something of a low ebb, with only twenty-two shillings and eightpence standing between him and destitution. A chance encounter at Hampstead appears to offer a way out via a scheme to blackmail the members of a dope ring not yet known to the police. But when the plan backfires in an unexpected way, Kerrigan decides to assist his friend Inspector Fleming in apprehending a dangerous criminal gang - and possibly make a...

The Autobiography of a Cad is the hilarious 'memoir' of an arch-rotter, chronicling the life of one (happily fictitious) Edward Fox-Ingleby. A. G. Macdonell had great fun in writing this book, undoubtedly his funniest. It is written as a tongue-in-cheek 'autobiography' of a man who ploughs his way through life shafting everyone around him. After inheriting an estate from his dull father while still at Eton, he then goes up to Oxford; adroitly evades service in the...