Bumf

by Alan Coren

Comedy Thriller / 4m, 6f / Interior A Tomb With A View is set in as sinister an old library as one is likely to come across presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family one member of which has were wolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar and a third member is a gentle old lady who plants more than seeds in her flower beds. By the third act, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast and what about the sympathetic nurse and the author of romantic novels are they all, or more than, they seem to be? All is revealed as the plot twists and turns to its surprising conclusion.

Genres: Humor

160 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1984

Reviews

[Christine]

Collection of pieces from Punch magazine. I enjoy Alan Coren's skill with words and I find him amusing but this was first published in 1984 and many of the articles have not aged particularly well.