Past Imperfect

Description:

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!

subjects: Social life and customs,  Nineteen sixties,  Fiction,  Upper class,  Fiction, general,  London (england), fiction,  Male Infertility,  Terminally ill,  Inheritance and succession,  Fathers,  Fathers and daughters, fiction,  Classes supérieures,  Romans, nouvelles,  Mœurs et coutumes,  Années soixante (Vingtième siècle),  Manners and customs,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  England, fiction