One Dragon Too Many Author:Louise Field Cooper In that best of all possible worlds, the world of the charming, comfortable house in Connecticut, the reader is invited to witness the muted machinations of two rival grandmothers. One is the incredibly elegant Mrs. Mumphrey...a slim, trim true portrait of a lady despite the fact that she is forced to earn a precarious living chaperoning young (... more »invariably dumb and boring) girls on the grand tour of Europe. For urgent reasons of her own she has leapt at the chance to be her grandchildren's protecting dragon--and queen of the castle--during their parents' absence from home. The other, arriving uninvited (thought not admitting it), is direct, dowdy little little Mrs. Boone...who has rushed to escape from her NY apartment before her tacky bad-penny of a brother lands in her life and on her hands for the nth time, and who is now cheerfully amused by her rival's Machiavellian campaign to dislodge her. Since each lady, in her own way, is spunky, determined-indeed, desperate-the war of the grandmothers, suspended only (and only temporarily) when danger seems to threaten the children, is glorious to behold. A comedy of manners at its most subtle and sharply obsered. No one does it better than Louise field Cooper and she has never done it better than in One Dragon Too Many.« less