Cara Massamina Author:Tim Parks Introducing unrepentant bourgeois serial killer Morris the Duckworth and his adventures in Veronese high society. — Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation -- to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative... more » family, is it any fault of his that the lovely girl chooses to elope? Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris' dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.« less