Death of a Sardine Author:Joan Fleming Brigadier Warrington thought rather well of himself as a well-moneyed (albeit somewhat elderly) playboy. He was usually unsuitably involved and this time it was Irma, a gorgeous young thing -- unfortunately married to a certain militant Herr Ganzenhausen. Then there was also Shamus Cork, a professional Irishman claiming to be a profession artist... more » (in either guise he felt he had to make a play for Irma), and there was the mad Meeth from Oxford. It was anybody's gurss what he might do...
As the Brigadier's son Tom said: "It's not difficult to see that that girl is a nympho, more or less; the whole set-up, nympho in a wedding ring, idle brigadier, hot sunshine, dipso abstract painter, a handful of expatriates in various stages of alcoholism, it all adds up to a situation fraught with... well, let's say drama."