Ways and Means

✍ Scribed by Cecil, Henry

• Book ID: 107791686
• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 174 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

These are the adventures of a pair of rogues-in-law. Not that they are lawyers — their roguery is a profession in itself! But it is through an enviable knowledge of the law they gull and trick as assuredly as Peer Gynt or Till Eulenspiegel. So be warned, peaceful inhabitants of Tapworth Magna. Basil Merridew and Nicholas Drewe are about to descend on you, to disturb that tranquillity only previously broken by the crack of ball on bat on summer Saturdays. And you are only the first! After you a whole train of art critics, journalists, vicars, and even lawyers will be subtly, brilliantly, legally had.

Only the author of Brothers In Law could have created two characters who are so outrageously a law unto themselves.

‘Not one tale, but four. . . . However, the chief characters persist; so does the topic; so do the familiar charms — the writer’s wit, his ingenuity, his turn for law, his penchant for the shady-debonair, and his engaging style’ — Illustrated London News

‘Hedonists and amoralists will find this a helpful and very funny guide’ — Yorkshire Post