The Midden: Tom Sharpe

Timothy Bright doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to believe that copious flows of money are his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off nor why friends he recruited as Lloyd's names no longer want to talk to him. When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him right up the motorway and into bed with the Chief Constable's wife, in the far northern county of Twixt and Tween. The Chief has just survived charges of bribery and perjury and is not to concerned that his efforts to dispose of Timothy involve false imprisonment, breaking and entering and a spot of GBH. It's when the Chief tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden, that things begin to spectacularly wrong!