Past imperfect
About this book
Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern. His fortune in excess of 500 million pounds and who should inherit it on his death. PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Baxter wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult mumps), but what about before that unfortunate illness? He was not a virgin. Had he sired a child? A letter from a girlfriend from these times suggests he did. But the letter is anonymous. Damian contacts someone he knew from their days at university. He gives him a list of girls he slept with and sets him a task: find his heir!
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL5738234W
Subjects
Social life and customsNineteen sixtiesFictionUpper classFiction, generalLondon (england), fictionMale InfertilityTerminally illInheritance and successionFathersFathers and daughters, fictionClasses supérieuresRomans, nouvellesMœurs et coutumesAnnées soixante (Vingtième siècle)Manners and customsFiction, thrillers, generalMan-woman relationships, fiction