Alas Poor Father Author:Joan Fleming Brigadier Basil Patricott, presently engaged on hush-hush business for the foreign office, is a man able to cope with anything -- except his two small motherless sons. As a result, they run wild in the company of an eccentric Irish pigeon-fancier living with his sinister brother in a house of mysterious locked doors. Then one of the boys goes ex... more »ploring and what he sees behind those doors marks him down for immediate death.« less
The Sunday Times says, "Joan Fleming has the gift of creating instantly credible characters."While Northern Echo reports, " Fleming is in scintikating form" with her novel. The Observer states: "Twists and turns all over the place."